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Status Not under consideration
Workspace PL/I Compilers
Created by Guest
Created on Oct 11, 2016

RELATED IDEAS

Provide an Enterprise PL/I function to get the current call stack level.

Provide an Enterprise PL/I function to get the current call stack level.

Example: Main calls subroutine A, A calls subroutine B: at that point the call stack level is 3 (assuming Main starts at 1).

CALL A;

A: PROC;
CALL B;
END A;

B: PROC;
PUT SKIP LIST(STACKLEVEL()); /* PRINTS “3” */
END B;

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jan 16, 2018

    This would be tricky to do on some platforms (especially when returns are optimized) and hence perhaps not the best thing to add to the language

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Oct 13, 2016

    this could indeed be useful and not expensive

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