On Wed, 23 Apr 2014 13:33:12 +0800, Timothy Sipples wrote: >Tom Marchant writes: >>The design of XPLINK and XPLINK-64 currently precludes the mixing of >>the two. > >Are you asking that LE support and facilitate 31-bit/64-bit "thunking"? >Have you raised that requirement yet?
I have not submitted a requirement. I don't have a business requirement myself. I did talk to LE developers at SHARE. Cobol and PL/I will have 64-bit support, but only with XPLINK, and that interoperability between programs that are not XPLINK-64 will be at the enclave level, at best. It is worth noting that Cobol 5.1.1 restores the ability to statically call AMODE(24) programs. It is not at all clear to me why they seem to think that the only need for AMODE(64) programs is for totally new or rewritten systems. I think it is unfortunate that LE chooses not to support the standard linkage conventions for 64-bit programs. The excuse seems to be that XPLINK is "faster". -- Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
