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joemcmahon
7y ago
Sure, those are valuable, and useful -- but they shouldn't be necessary as part of dealing with your job.
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joemcmahon
10y ago
GETMAIN, the malloc() equivalent in MVT-derived IBM OSes, does not always zero memory. IIRC, MVS didn't zero it at all, so you might get anything in there, thus the need for a call that guaranteed zeroed memory for it. (This is from my