In <263145282.5266498.1383166791977.javamail.r...@comcast.net>, on 10/30/2013 at 08:59 PM, DASDBILL2 <dasdbi...@comcast.net> said:
>PITA, yes, but not life-threateningly so. Consider the following: >X = 0 >IF X=1 THEN > DC C'THIS IS A CONSTANT THAT IS NOW "REACHABLE" SO THE COMPILER >WILL NOT "DELETE" IT IN ORDER TO "OPTIMIZE" THE LOAD MODULE." ENDIF A good compiler will recognize that as unreachable. -- 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 lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN