Very cool!

Why copy? Why not use them where they are?

Charles

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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf 
Of Ed Jaffe
Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2016 11:01 AM
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Subject: Re: Multitasking question

On 12/27/2016 10:21 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
>
> The address ranges wouldn't need to be identical if the code were 
> location independent.  This may have been a goal of the
> S/360 designers, never exploited in OS/360 software.

We exploit it all the time!

We have literally hundreds of programs with no RLD entries i.e., no embedded 
ADCONs. That makes it _really_ easy to copy them from one place to another via 
MVCLE and then pass control to them without having to worry about relocation.

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