On Fri, 15 Feb 2019 15:15:20 -0500, Tony Harminc wrote: > >There is another thing to think about - symbolic variable >substitution. SYS1.MODGEN(IEFSSCM) has some comments about this, and >it's not immediately obvious to me if the length can exceed 126 after >substitution. I don't think so... > In some cases, symbolic variable substitution is extremely simple-minded. Symbol values must be no longer than their names. The service needn't be concerned with buffer overflow nor report it to the caller. The caller needn't handle overflow errors nor supply a buffer length to the service.
This design is good only for limited-resource environments such as initialization or S/360. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
