Re: Brokeback Mountain II - The IT Guys (Was Re: So how representative is this experience ?)

Richard Maher wrote:

Most COBOL sites I know of compile for /NOALIGNMENT and let the compiler
generate the bazillion extra instructions needed to prevent an alignment
fault.

I wouldn't say bazillion. 1 instruction for an aligned longword fetch, 7 instructions for an unaligned longword fetch (including two LDQ_U instructions). So you might cause more cache misses, more data moving from memory, etc. Not pretty, certainly slower, not a bazillion.

Curious. Did Don Braffit die at his keyboard due to underfunding and
atrophy? Any point in asking the new-broom for a list of new features that
are coming up for COBOL (Local Storage? Recursion? Conforming to latest
standards?)

Don't get me wrong, I'm over the moon if you're in charge of COBOL! (As long
as you haven't had to give up MACRO)

Don took the early retirement package last fall. He recently landed a teaching position at a small school in Virginia. It was something he wanted to do.

I picked up COBOL and the sorts (SORT & Hypersort) from Don. I still have Pascal and Macro-32. I think I can juggle all of them. I just finished a Pascal release and I'm all done with Macro-32 with regards to what will ship with 8.3. I'm ready for my "Summer of COBOL" (sounds like a bad Frankie Avalon movie, eh?)


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John Reagan
HP Pascal/{A|I}MACRO for OpenVMS Project Leader
Hewlett-Packard Company
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