I could simply add a few "fixed dec (15)" counters into the code, and turn the do-while loop into the discrete one from the manuals. The whole exercise is of course a bit silly, as I knew that was coming for years, and meeting someone from the Dominican Republic finally made it happen.
And I'm sure that leaves all of you very puzzled. ;) I'll explain it later. Robert On Sat, 18 Jun 2022 at 19:18, Bob Bridges <robhbrid...@gmail.com> wrote: > I wouldn't for the world want to discourage anyone who wants to try > patching compiled code, just for the fun of it. If you want to, go for > it. But wouldn't it be simpler just to do the calculation? > > Or are you wondering HOW MANY TIMES the counter cycled? > > --- > Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 > > /* The best principles may be espoused by crass hypocrites (and they > usually are). But if we consider a principle refuted every time its > advocates fail to live up to it, we'll soon be left with no principles at > all. -Joseph Sobran */ > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf > Of Robert Prins > Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2022 11:52 > > Does anyone know which library modules are responsible for the > implementation of these two compiler options, and more precisely, for the > reporting of statement counts, as I need to (try to) patch the latter, > given that it treats negative counts as zero, and I now have a program > where four of the counts have turned negative, because the statements are > executed more than 2^31-1 times. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- Robert AH Prins robert(a)prino(d)org The hitchhiking grandfather <https://prino.neocities.org/index.html> Some REXX code for use on z/OS <https://prino.neocities.org/zOS/zOS-Tools.html> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
