Re: Recursive Call

In article <dkt1h402c2f@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Michael Wojcik <mwojcik@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[snip]

>There are no doubt still small embedded systems that do not provide
>a stack, but these days even most embedded machines are programmed
>in C or another high-level language with similar requirements.

This brings up a point about which I may have made an error someplace
else... so I might as well try to get information here that I might
correct myself, delicately.

The fellow with whom I was conversing mentioned use of the stack-trace in
debugging; I said that this was not, in my experience, a common method
applied to IBM-architecture mainframes. I based this on my experience as
a mere apps-jockey; when something blows up I look for the PSW, find the
address of the previous statement and proceed from there.

This ignores - in the radical sense of 'in (not) gnosis' - what folks at
the systems level do. Is there something akin to stack tracing done on
Big Blue Big Iron running 'classic' (COBOL/CICS/DB2) systems?

DD

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