On Tue, 11 Aug 2015 07:27:06 -0500, John McKown wrote:
>
>​I will chime in with my _opinion_ that now is the time to start using a
>STG to an AD field. It is a cheap way to "future proof" your program for
>when IBM finally allows RMODE(64). Unless, like someone I knew back in the
>
Amen.  And all new control blocks should use 64-bit addresses.

>1970's who didn't want to calculate leap years at run time. So she had a
>hard coded table in her program. It went up to her planned retirement date.
>
Did she then use a binary search, or linear?

And in the mid 1980's I was unable to persuade my design team to allow
4 digits for year.  Their refutation was that we'd be unable to populate
such a field because IBM APIs we needed to use supplied only 2 then.

-- gil

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