From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 101deb,3488d9e5d292649f X-Google-Attributes: gid101deb,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,e6a2e4a4c0d7d8a6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-02-22 11:31:32 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!cyclone.bc.net!sjc70.webusenet.com!c03.atl99!cyclone2.usenetserver.com!news.webusenet.com!news01.optonline.net!news4.srv.hcvlny.cv.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "John W. Kennedy" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.pl1,comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: IEFBR14, was Re: status of PL/I as a viable language References: <3E574C46.2F195258@yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <3E574C46.2F195258@yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2003 19:31:19 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.82.223.172 X-Trace: news4.srv.hcvlny.cv.net 1045942279 67.82.223.172 (Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:31:19 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:31:19 EST Organization: Optimum Online Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.pl1:4422 comp.lang.ada:34437 Date: 2003-02-22T19:31:19+00:00 List-Id: Peter Flass wrote: > Pointless Harlows wrote: > >>"John R. Strohm" wrote in message >> >>>Actually, it IS possible to create perfect code. >> >>You may recall the perfect IBM mainframe utility routine IEFBR14 ;-) >> >>However, I did hear it said once that even the first version of IEFBR14 had >>a fault in that it didnt return a zero return code. >>Can anyone actually confirm that? > > > I've head the same thing, and at one point I believe someone posted the > PTF number for the fix. This should still be readable in the load > module, since (AFAIK) IEFBR14 hasn't been rewritten since release 1.0 of > OS/360. Huh? IDR data only came in around Release 20 or so, anyway. -- John W. Kennedy "The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all." -- G. K. Chesterton, "The Man Who Was Thursday"