On 2/21/2012 6:01 PM, Charles Mills wrote:
Also remember when perusing the LE publications that the inventors of LE in
their wisdom thought it would be too clear to the uninitiated to call the
languages dependent on Language Environment "languages," choosing instead to
further overload the word "member."
it is made easy, for one C function to call another C function
What does that have to do with LE? No other platform that I know of has LE,
but on every platform cannot a C function trivially call another C function?
Otherwise wouldn't every C program have to consist simply of one humongous
main()?
Well, z/VSE has LE; I understand AS/400 has it; there is even
some support in OS/2 :-)
But, right, no non-IBM platform supports LE.
Charles
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The heavy irony in the rhetorical question
| Why did I think that there might be a clue to the "C/C++ signature
| CSECT" in the C/C++ documentation?
is understandable. Moreover, Chris Mason's manner does annoy some people;
but it would be unwise to ignore the substantive content of his posts for
this reason.
Things do not always appear where one would like to find them in IBM
publications; and his example is a valuable illustration of how to find them
when they do not.
Moreover, a good ROT to keep in mind is that things not found in the IBM
manuals for a particular statement-level procedural language may well be
found in its LE manuals and in particular in the ILC discussions in these LE
manuals, which contain useful detail that can be found nowhere else.
Moreover again, this is unsurprising. It is easy, because it is made easy,
for one C function to call another C function. It s not so easy to induce
Java to call C successfully. To do this one needs to know more, and that
more is just what is addressed in ILC discussions.
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