>On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 18:38:33 -0500, John McKown wrote: >>As I recall the x'81' in the undefined area was a mod by SLAC to the >>Linkage Editor. I remember it well. Mainly because IBM had a bunch of DS
(then someone else wrote) > Hmmm. Would that tend to bloat load modules, or does the load > module definition have some sort of RLE compression capability? Last I knew, neither object modules or load modules compressed the data. I did once initialize a large array to zero in a Fortran DATA statement, and then punch the object deck onto actual cards. Many cards were filled with binary zeros. -- glen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
