Peter Relson wrote: <begin extract> It appears that no one vocal enough to ask has needed the function in the lifetime of the SAVE macro. Needs can certainly change. But have they, in this case? </end extract>
I suspect that what we are seeing here is not unchanged needs but, as another poster has already noted, desuetude. As this thread has itself made amply clear, a good many people have been vocal about the deficiencies of SAVE; but most of them have discarded it or, better, replaced it with a better, RYO macro. I have my own fore-and-aft macros, and many other single programmers and organizations have them too. Moreover, there are IBM-supplied functional equivalents like the prologue- and epilogue-generating macros that it makes available for executing assembly-language routines in an LE setting. Had IBM elected to keep ther SAVE macro current with new technology and requirements it would perhaps still be in current use. IBM did not, and it is not. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
