Very little software comes with guarantees of "do no harm." Charles
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2016 10:18 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: ABO Automatic Binary Optimizer On Thu, 13 Oct 2016 12:39:30 -0400, Tony Harminc wrote: > >... But the ABO product is certainly not just translating individual >old instructions into newer ones. Rather, it is surely identifying >COBOL paradigms based on some kind of pattern matching, and then >retranslating those COBOLy things into modern machine code. > If ABO is guaranteed (we don't know that) not to impair the semantics of any machine code, even not generated by COBOL, then the worst it can do is to pass machine code unmodified. But sometimes part of that code might match a COBOL cliché and be optimized. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
