On 2013-10-10 14:08, Barry Merrill wrote:
Is there really a reason to call a z/OS MEMORY ERROR a LEAK???
It's an ERROR. I know the Open Systems guys love to hide behind
words that make it NOT seem to be their error, but why us???
Barry
Another term I recall being used in the mainframe environment is
"storage creep". Neither that nor "memory leak" adequately indicates
that the fault lies with the programmer. However flawed the term may be,
memory leak is a well known and widely used term, and its meaning is
generally understood correctly.
Most readers would infer that "memory error" indicated that the
(hardware) memory had a fault, not that memory was left allocated when
it should not have been.
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Regards, Gord Tomlin
Action Software International
(a division of Mazda Computer Corporation)
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