On Tue, 22 Sep 2020 21:51:34 +0000, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote: >Current Enterprise COBOL compilers (and back as far as I know, even COBOL >F-level from MVT) always mark the last parameter address in the address list >with the bit 0 turned on, though I have not researched what current ones do if >the last parameter is "BY VALUE". > >Again for current Enterprise COBOL versions, the LE Vendor Interfaces manual >available in KC has the PPA1 format and in general how to locate it. > The answer depends on agreement between the designers of the calling and called programs. Lacking such agreement there's no general solution.
C programs called by a POSIX shell can rely on argc, but only because that's specified in the Standard. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
