But, "High-Level Assembler"...

On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 4:20 PM, Alan Young <[email protected]> wrote:

> John McKown wrote:
>
>> ​IMO, what they mean is that there is not any syntactical language element
>> which encompasses the hiperspace API at a native language level. Example,
>> COBOL has a SORT verb which directly implements a language interface to
>> the
>> "sort" function. As opposed to doing a CALL 'ICEMAIN' in order to
>> interface
>> to a sort routine.
>>
>>
>
> The C library runtime provides an I/O interface to treat hiperspace memory
> as a file. The hiperspace is created with the fopen() function and a type
> parameter.
>
> type=memory(hiperspace)
>
>  If you are using MVS/ESA, you can specify the HIPERSPACE suboption to
> open a hiperspace memory file.
>
>  Restriction: For AMODE 64 applications, type=memory(hiperspace) is
> treated as type=memory.
>
> fread(), fwrite(), fclose(), clrmemf() etc. support it. And the routines
> are callable from COBOL.
>
> Alan
>
>
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