An 8K CSECT is fairly small? That seems odd to me. 99.99% of my CSECTs are less than 8K. Load modules (which are what I am scanning) are a different story -- most all of my load modules are much larger than 8K due to multiple CSECTs in the load module. I understand the linkage editor can split a record anywhere it wants. However, why does that cause a problem if I am concatenating all of the records for a load module into a single variable and scanning that variable? For example... searcharea = "" do until EOF read record into newrecord searcharea = searcharea || newrecord end scan searcharea I haven't done exhaustive testing, but the testing I did shows that the result is what I expected (including when the records had an odd number of bytes, e.g., not on a fullword boundary). If my search string was split across the previous record and the new record, it is correctly "un-split" in the concatenated storage area. Ira In a message dated 5/1/2007 12:19:59 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 05/01/2007 at 10:44 AM, Ira Broussard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >I tried it with modules that had multiple CSECTs up to 8K per CSECT That's still fairly small, although it is posible to hit the problem even so. >I don't understand why you think there would be a problem. Because the linkage editor and the BINDER can split text at arbitrary locations. >One of my test load libraries contains a block size of 6160 >resulting in CSECTs spanning multiple records, and it still works. Try searching for a string that straddles text records. -- 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) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
