On Thu, 5 Feb 2009 13:39:32 -0500, Guy Gardoit <[email protected]> wrote:
> >For the life of me, I can't understand why this is such a surprise or >problem. How many bad programmers were-there/are-there anyway? > >Sorry, but one who breaks the rules, end ups broken. > >Guy Gardoit >z/OS Systems Programming I'll admit that I am one of the ones who would have made this mistake. I don't know why, but I __always__ thought that the storage returned via GETMAIN or STORAGE OBTAIN was guaranteed to be x'00'. Now, I might not have gotten caught because my normal coding technique for this sort of think is to assemble an "initialization area" in my code, do the GETMAIN, then MVC[L] my initialized area to the GETMAIN'd area. -- John ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
