As all of the responders have made clear, CSECT and ENTRY in the assembler source are not directly relevant. Only NAME and ALIAS (typically via binder control statements) are relevant. CSECT and ENTRY are data that the binder uses to know to which location the ALIAS is to apply. If the ALIAS name is found as a CSECT / ENTRY, then the binder uses that location. If the ALIAS name is not a CSECT / ENTRY, it defaults to using the module entry (as defined or defaulted by the binder). There are limits to the number of aliases the binder will let you create.
Then IDENTIFY can add to the mix. There are no practical limits to the number of IDENTIFY's you can go (obviously at some point you run out of storage to hold CDEs). The approach to IDENTIFY a GETMAINed area is not a programming interface. Use at your own risk. Peter Relson z/OS Core Technology Design ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
