> So fix the callee. The usual reasons for not doing so should not apply. Any code that uses grande instructions was by definition not written in 1972, so there should be no "we can't find the source code, the guy who wrote it retired, we're afraid to touch the code, ..."
Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Peter Relson Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2018 4:59 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: COBOL 64bit <snip> Don't expect anyone else to save it, so if you really need it after you get started then save again in your own storage before you call someone else who may or may not preserve it. </snip> I disagree. That's what linkage conventions are for. Sure, if a callee fails to follow them (and fails to document its requirements so that the caller can know that it needs to do extra work), the caller is screwed. So fix the callee. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
