The heavy irony in the rhetorical question | Why did I think that there might be a clue to the | "C/C++ signature CSECT" in the C/C++ documentation?
is understandable. Moreover, Chris Mason's manner does annoy some people; but it would be unwise to ignore the substantive content of his posts for this reason. Things do not always appear where one would like to find them in IBM publications; and his example is a valuable illustration of how to find them when they do not. Moreover, a good ROT to keep in mind is that things not found in the IBM manuals for a particular statement-level procedural language may well be found in its LE manuals and in particular in the ILC discussions in these LE manuals, which contain useful detail that can be found nowhere else. Moreover again, this is unsurprising. It is easy, because it is made easy, for one C function to call another C function. It s not so easy to induce Java to call C successfully. To do this one needs to know more, and that more is just what is addressed in ILC discussions. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
