Yeah, not everyone wants double the amount of memory available to properly-written 32-bit (ie using "L" etc, not "LG" etc) programs for no cost.
Some people are perfectly happy with 2 GiB. The only business application I've been made aware of that reaches the 2 GiB bar is the IBM C compiler doing optimization. BFN. Paul. On Tue, 7 Feb 2023 15:33:38 -0600, Tom Marchant <m42tom-ibmm...@yahoo.com> wrote: >Is that all you want? > ></sarcasm> > >"I want it because I think it would be cool" is not a business justification. > >-- >Tom Marchant > >On Tue, 7 Feb 2023 12:15:57 -0600, Paul Edwards <mutazi...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>The z/OS change that would be required to support >>negative indexing (which, while fairly uncommon, can't >>really be avoided - it's a fundamental part of how >>things work), would be to map the 4-8 GiB region onto >>0-4 GiB (DAT/virtual storage). > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
