[email protected] (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) wrote: <begin extract> one of the things that I did have lots of problems with was supporting position independent code (mentioned in the tss/360 wiki article) ...constantly having to hack code to make in position independent </end extract>
Is 'position independent' code the same as location-independent code? Presumably not, since location-dependent code, which gives trouble when modifications are made elsewhere in its containing routine, is something that I have tried to avoid for a good many years now. (I recall with no fondness a 60-year-old pseudo-random number generator that was location-dependent.) John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
