Existing programs will be using VL, so you're talking a total rewrite to exploit AMODE32. How is that short-term fix advantageous? It's just as easy to go directly to 64 bit.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Paul Edwards <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, April 4, 2019 1:56 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: AMODE 32 On Thu, 4 Apr 2019 17:45:27 +0000, Seymour J Metz <[email protected]> wrote: >> I don't agree. Existing applications can be >> modified to be 32-bit clean > >Only if the never use storage above the line for parameters. Or they don't use VL, the same requirement that AM64 has. BFN. Paul. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
