>On Sun, 3 Nov 2024 14:59:20 -0600, Paul Gilmartin <paulgboul...@aol.com> wr= >ote: > >>It would be a disservice to customers to retire 24-bit support berore >>all IBM programming interfaces support AMODE 31. > >Do *any* of the modern compilers (C, COBOL, PL/I) "support 24-bit addressin= >g"? What would that mean, exactly? Their libraries certainly do QSAM I/O un= >der the covers, and parts of QSAM are firmly rooted in the world of 24 bits= >. But none of them let you build AMODE or RMODE 24 programs (do they?).
Enterprise COBOL supports AMODE 24 programs! When the new generation of COBOL first came out in 2013 (COBOL V5.1) it did NOT support AMODE 24, and we got a lot of backlash for that. There are still many AMODE 24 assembler programs that interact with COBOL programs, so we added support explicitly for AMODE 24 in COBOL 5.1.1, and it continues today in V6.4 Cheers, TomR (AKA Captain COBOL :-) >> COBOL is the Language of the Future! << ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
