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|    Joe Monk to All    |
|    Re: PDOS/86    |
|    23 Aug 21 10:25:50    |
      From: joemonk64@gmail.com              >A standard C90-compliant program like GCCMVS       >only operates on a single address space.              No, it operates in whatever address space the initiator gives it. At inception       of task, that will either be Home or Primary.              > I do have a question though. If we switch from S/370 with       > 12-bit displacements to S/390 with what - 20-bit displacements? -       > does that enable the model James mentioned with a single       > code section? But that only works if the code section is       > less than 1 MiB (20-bits), ditto the data section? What do you       > do if either of those limits are exceeded?       >              Its not possible. RX instruction format only allows 12 bits for the       displacement... to keep things in a 4K page :)              You can write single CSECT programs today. Nothing stopping that.              Joe              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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