RE: power line (AS/400) article in computerworld -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: RE: power line (AS/400) article in computerworld
From: "Walden H. Leverich" <WaldenL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:18:57 -0400
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No system that I'm aware of can actually guarantee that a memory

pointer

will remain valid between restarts.

Actually it depends on what you mean by "pointer". Remember, the System
Entry Point Table is nothing more than a list of pointers that survive
IPLs. Or look at the dump of an object, it's full of pointers to other
objects, and they all survive across IPLs.

Actually quite remarkable it you think about it.

-Walden

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