In <0853231378493523.wa.paulgboulderaim....@listserv.ua.edu>, on
08/01/2013
at 06:30 PM, Paul Gilmartin <paulgboul...@aim.com> said:
>One might imagine restoring reentrancy by making the alterable
>fragments pointers into obtained storage.
Or serializing when it matters. But such code is usually harder to
maintain.
>Almost as bad as code-modification is the use in C of function
>pointers in structs.
You mean an object that has methods?
>PSA makes z/OS partly reentrant.
Partly? The use of, e.g., ENQ, latches, locks appears to make it fully
reentrant.
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