Well, @Captain, I stand corrected. <g> (That was me in error.)
Charles On Wed, 6 Nov 2024 13:20:58 -0800, Tom Ross <tmr...@stlvm20.vnet.ibm.com> wrote: >>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
