In a recent note, john gilmore said: > Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 15:26:11 +0000 > > The notion that the Binder is a new, arcane and/or dubious piece of > technology is a curious one. It can pretend to be the Linkage Editor, > With at least one exception. With Linkage Editor, I was accustomed to an orderly termination with RC=0 when it encountered an empty SYSLIN. Binder produces RC=12. I had to change a bit of code because of this.
I've never had much respect for IBM's handling of boundary conditions. Apparently they're getting worse. > Moreover, no effort to avoid putting load modules and/or program objects > into either linkage-editor or binder inputs should ever be made. Both > But note that if I code the entry point on the assembler END statement, it gets reflected in SYSLIN, and is effective in the load module. If I then re-link, the entry point is lost. I believe the "INCLUDE -attr" construct solves this imputed problem. And I recall you deprecated "-attr" a while back in ASSEMBLER-LIST. But how else can IEBCOPY employ Binder to convert between load modules and program objects? -- gil -- StorageTek INFORMATION made POWERFUL ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
