On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 09:57:42 -0400, John Gilmore wrote:
>
>It could also be used by ISVs.  FLOGR is not, for example available on
>all of the mainframes currently in use, but its availability changes
>the rules for bit-map processing in a fundamental way.  Shipping a
>FLOGR macro with a product that notionally uses the FLOGR instruction
>would eliminate the need, felt by some ISVs, to avoid it (and other
>instructions of that ilk).
> 
Business decision.  That might be perceived as weakening the
incentive for customers to upgrade.

-- gil

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