On Fri, 2 Nov 2007 11:55:08 -0500, Tony Harminc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Let's not forget the System Programming C (SPC) option, which has been >around for many years. This was sold early on as a facility for writing >exits and the like, and indeed it can be used for just about >environment-free programming. It comes with a "smaller-than-LE" RTL, and you >can provide your own heap and stack management routines. But it emits object >code rather than HLASM statements, so you can't include inline assembler.
Actually, I _do_ try to forget that <g>, as you needed to manage and connect up your own runtime environments to the routines as they got control. Not particularly friendly for code that might have high reentrancy requirements or could execute in any address space (like system exits). With all due apologies to Anuja, Scott Fagen Enterprise Systems Management ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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