In <listserv%200910011253458520.0...@bama.ua.edu>, on 10/01/2009
at 12:53 PM, Bruce Richardson <bruce.richard...@arcelormittal.com>
said:
>Are you sure your code didn't suffer the same fate as IEFBR14? The story
>(Urban Legend?) I heard, was that IEFBR14 was originally just a "BR 14",
>but that code was APAR'd to add a "SR 15,15" before the "BR 14" to set
>the return code to zero. But then along came a problem with the loader,
>it seems that the minimum program length has to be 8 bytes, so another
>APAR was opened to add two NOPRs to the code.
The first is true; I don't believe the second. However, there was an APAR
to add an eye catcher; I believe that the eye catcher was eventually
removed.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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