Re: Combining DLL and dynamic calls

2006-12-22 Thread David Crayford
Howard Brazee wrote: On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 23:22:34 +0900, David Crayford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: For several reasons. Firstly, because your typical dynamically loaded COBOL or HLASM program is monolithic with one entry point and a parameter list. If you have lots of entry points you have

Re: Combining DLL and dynamic calls

2006-12-22 Thread Howard Brazee
On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 23:22:34 +0900, David Crayford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >For several reasons. Firstly, because your typical dynamically loaded >COBOL or HLASM program is monolithic with one entry point and a >parameter list. If you have lots of entry points you have to load and >delete lo

Re: Combining DLL and dynamic calls

2006-12-21 Thread Steve Comstock
David Crayford wrote: Steve Comstock wrote: DLLs are overrated by people who are not aware of how normal dynamic linkages work in z/OS. But one must deal with them, since they are becoming more and more common. That depends on what language you code in. For C/C++ DLLs are a godsend. Why d

Re: Combining DLL and dynamic calls

2006-12-21 Thread David Crayford
Steve Comstock wrote: DLLs are overrated by people who are not aware of how normal dynamic linkages work in z/OS. But one must deal with them, since they are becoming more and more common. That depends on what language you code in. For C/C++ DLLs are a godsend.

Re: Combining DLL and dynamic calls

2006-11-24 Thread Steve Comstock
Jürgen Weber wrote: Steve, thanks very much for the exhaustive resume of cobol call options. I am looking for a way to use dynamic and dlls calls together from one load module. This is possible by linking with DYNAM and calling the DLL explicitly with dllload. Of course, for DLLs that export lo

Re: Combining DLL and dynamic calls

2006-11-23 Thread Jürgen Weber
Steve, thanks very much for the exhaustive resume of cobol call options. I am looking for a way to use dynamic and dlls calls together from one load module. This is possible by linking with DYNAM and calling the DLL explicitly with dllload. Of course, for DLLs that export lots of functions, this

Re: Combining DLL and dynamic calls

2006-11-23 Thread Steve Comstock
Jürgen Weber wrote: Hi, this certainly isn't the first posting with this subject, but after reading the old postings I still have a question: As I understand, the linker allows you to use either dynamic calls or DLL calls. You can combine the call types if you have the linker create dynamic cal

Combining DLL and dynamic calls

2006-11-22 Thread Jürgen Weber
Hi, this certainly isn't the first posting with this subject, but after reading the old postings I still have a question: As I understand, the linker allows you to use either dynamic calls or DLL calls. You can combine the call types if you have the linker create dynamic calls and code a DLL call