Re: Teraspace V5R4 - _C_TS_malloc

[Scott Klement <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ugh...  I see Barbara pretty much said the same thing I did.  That's 
what I get for posting before reading the whole thread!

Sorry for the duplication.

On 9/15/2015 8:17 PM, Scott Klement wrote:
> Chuck,
>
> I think you are confusing two different things.  There is the teraspace
> "storage model", and there are teraspace allocations...   the storage
> model makes the compiler use teraspace for it's allocations, stacks, and
> various other things.  Just doing teraspace allocations, however (when a
> programmer is writing code working with pointers, et al) does not
> require the teraspace storage model.
>
> Teraspace allocations with _C_TS_malloc() and friends work fine with
> STGMDL(*SNGLVL), but do require teraspace capability in the pointers
> (and the routines within the OS that do pointer math.)
>
> In ILE RPG, terapsace pointers will work as long as you compile for
> V4R4M0 or higher.  No need for the storage model option.  (Which was
> added more recently).  No special compile option is needed.
>
> In ILE C, you can enable teraspace pointers by compiling with
> TERASPACE(*YES).
>
> I'm not totally sure about ILE CL.  I think it has supported teraspace
> since pointers were added to the language, but I haven't used them, so I
> could be wrong on that one.
>
> I have no idea about Cobol.