On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 10:33 AM, Tom Marchant < [email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Jul 2016 09:57:45 -0500, John McKown wrote: > > >Isn't it a really _nasty_ way to force the C compiler down people's > >throat? In order to use AMODE 64 && LE, you __must__ write the "main" > >routine in C. Even if all it does is call an assembler routine which does > >all the real work. > > Or COBOL. Or PL/I. (I think) > There's a 64 bit XPLINK COBOL compiler now? I can't see anything in the current documentation about that. PL/I version 5.1 does have an LP64 option for 64 bit programs. I don't know of any shops which really use PL/I. I absolutely adored that language in college; much more so than COBOL or FORTRAN. > > Why do you want to be XPLINK-64? > > -- > Tom Marchant > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- "Pessimism is a admirable quality in an engineer. Pessimistic people check their work three times, because they're sure that something won't be right. Optimistic people check once, trust in Solis-de to keep the ship safe, then blow everyone up." "I think you're mistaking the word optimistic for inept." "They've got a similar ring to my ear." >From "Star Nomad" by Lindsay Buroker: Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
