Mr. Gilmore,
You are so out of line on this that it is pathetic.
For me to try to discover if there is some way to influence memory
allocation is a reasonable approach to writing code. The fewer
the number of times my code runs thru allocation, the better it will
perform.
CPOOL services provides this for 31 bit users. When I did not see
anything for IARCP64, I thought I was missing something, somewhere.
You're 1st response about EXPAND= indicated you did not understand
the reason/purpose of the original post.
You're 2nd response to check the prologue is inaccurate, from the
standpoint of the original post. There is nothing in the prologue
that indicates the size of the memory object. I've read it, and I saw
nothing. This is on a 1.12 ADCD system. Possibly there is on some
system you have access to, but not on mine.
And now this.
The last time you and I had any direct contact on this list was
some years back, during a discussion about hooking PC's. I questioned some
assertions you were making, and the next thing I got from you was a
private email where you indicated that what you were doing was
modifying the default assembler action to insert your code into the code
path for a PC at assembly time....hardly the equivalent of code that
goes into
a running system and places itself in the code path of of executed
Program Calls.
Subsequent to that interchange for some period, I deleted from my
in-box anything emanating from you. Some time back I was reading a post
by someone else where they complimented you on your mastery of the
English language, and stated they always enjoyed reading your posts if
for no
other reason than it sent them to a dictionary and they always learned
something. So, with that in mind, I started reading some of your posts.
And I have to admit, you are able to use the language to a degree that
few have achieved.
If you don't like the content of someone's post, the proper thing
to do is to ignore it. It is obvious that your language skills far
exceed your programming skill
and experience, and from time to time you display that.
I don't know what happened this time to cause you to dump on me.
Perhaps you are just getting older, the body is wearing out, and it is
giving
you some discomfort when you remove it from your anus to go about your
daily chores.
--Dave Day
On 8/25/2012 8:03 AM, John Gilmore wrote:
I confess to some dissatisfaction with both the tone and the substance
of Mr Day's OP.
He was seeking to use a facility about which he clearly knew nothing
in detail while|whilst complaining that its syntax was not identical
to that of its [very approximate] AMODE(31) analogue.
Moreover, the prolog[ue] is in the macro; and my advice that it read
it was thus straightforward. Moreover again, this advice is not
novel. Several IBM contributors here and on the assembler list have
noted that the 'prologs' should be consulted for detailed information
of this kind.
I should have been prepared to walk him through the use of IARCP64 if
he had first made even the minimal appropriate effort to understand
it. Things are bigger above the bar; he clearly had no grasp of this
notion; and without it I judged that he was not likely to make much
progress.
These things said, I agree with Shane that those of us who have used
and know something about the above-the-bar facilities that IBM is
making available have an obligation to be helpful to colleagues who
have less experience with them.
Excluding Shane's post from this stricture explicitly, I must also
confess that I have little patience with a class of other posts that
seem to me to be insular, suspiciously unanimous, risk-averse, and
mediocre. I shall try to do better.
John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA
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