If/when PL/1 supports 64-bit, the executable will have to live in a program object if compiled 64-bit. That's the same state of the C compiler today. It's not the 64-bit part that requires that, but XPLINK which is required to run 64-bit with IBM's compilers.
In article <56a78e69.5010...@t-online.de> you wrote: > In the PL/1 mailing list, Peter Elderon (IBM) explicitly stated that there > are no plans to force the PL/1 users to PDSEs, so IMO this is not true > for PL/1, > at least. > Kind regards > Bernd > Am 26.01.2016 um 15:10 schrieb Steve Thompson: > > IIRC: At Share 2015 in Seattle, wasn't it stated that the COBOL 5 code > > generator is the one that PL/1, C/C++, and a few others are using or > > will (soon) be using? > > > > IOW: The "architecture aware" code generator was going to be common. > > That means it will be generating program objects. > > > > > > Regards, > > Steve Thompson -- Don Poitras - SAS Development - SAS Institute Inc. - SAS Campus Drive sas...@sas.com (919) 531-5637 Cary, NC 27513 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN