On Sat, 8 Jan 2011 17:52:06 -0600 Paul Gilmartin <paulgboul...@aim.com> wrote:
:>On Sat, 8 Jan 2011 17:34:34 -0500, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: :>>In <ul5ei6t2poqs32hc2nfq04rmin8f7k5...@4ax.com>, on 01/07/2011 :>> at 03:36 PM, Binyamin Dissen said: :>>>This issue is that the binder considers this kind of error to be :>>>merely a warning. :>>What kind of error and why should it be more than a warning? Pity that Shmuel didn't refer back to the original post rather than ask. But I digress. :>Why should it be less than an Error (RC=8)? Dueling rhetoric. You :>say to-mah-to. :>Is everyone familiar with this code? I had to look it up: :> IEW2556W RECORD NUMBER number OF THE CURRENT OBJECT MODULE HAS AN INVALID :> OBJECT IDENTIFIER IN COLUMN 1. :> Explanation: Object module records are required to have X'02' in column 1. :> System Action: The record in error will be skipped. :>In my opinion, there's no plausible etiology that motivates passing this :>condition with a Warning. Some languages treat all unrecognizable constructs :>as comments. I prefer that Binder not be one of them. Yes, especially since the binder input is usually machine generated - which means something quite unexpected happened. :>Years ago, on a non-IBM system, I had an object module on punched cards fail :>with a similar defect. one card was punched backward. If I inserted it :>reversed, it appeared valid, except the wrong corner was cut. I assume :>it went through the punch reversed, and a helpful operator spotted the :>error and did what he thought was best to correct it. :>No more cards, but still no excuse for tolerating the error. -- Binyamin Dissen <bdis...@dissensoftware.com> http://www.dissensoftware.com Director, Dissen Software, Bar & Grill - Israel Should you use the mailblocks package and expect a response from me, you should preauthorize the dissensoftware.com domain. I very rarely bother responding to challenge/response systems, especially those from irresponsible companies. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
