Re: GCIC Fullscreen applications

I rely mostly on testing, but could you elaborate a bit on how reentrancy is a problem when recursion is OK? Want to know what to stay away from...

--- In [email protected], "kerravon86" <kerravon86@...> wrote:
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> --- In [email protected], "mfnoel" <mikenoel37@> wrote:
> >
> > KICKS is written almost entirely in GCCMVS, and many 
> > of it's routines are used recursively (meaning they 
> > call themselves, either directly or in some chain of 
> > calls). And it uses PCPCLIB all over the place 
> > (carefully!) including in the recursively called routines.
> 
> Recursion isn't a problem so long as a sufficient
> sized stack is available.
> 
> Reentrancy is a problem though. PDPCLIB isn't 
> naturally reentrant (although the right contortions 
> could potentially do that - but that effort is 
> probably better spent creating the prelinker etc 
> that would force any program to be reentrant.
> 
> BFN.  Paul.
>