In <[email protected]>, on 06/27/2013
at 02:04 AM, Bernd Oppolzer <[email protected]> said:
>I believe that in OS/360's time the designers then couldn't do much
>better.
Due to management, not to technology.
>When I first met the IBM world (in 1982), I was kind of impressed
>by the simple and clean structure of the OS linkage conventions,
>and by the fact, that every language could call the other.
There has never been a release with ILC among C, COBOL, FORTRAN,
Pascal and PL/I.
>0C8 abends in the PSW program mask
Don't confuse a program interrupt with an ABEND. You only get an ABEND
if there is no [E]SPIE for overflow.
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Atid/2 <http://patriot.net/~shmuel>
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