Once it becomes available, may try to see the effects in Native z/OS. It might resolve my issues with those pesky malloc and its friends
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>One more note on the new VB6COMPAT option. Likely this option would also help to make PCRE available from the .NET languages like C#. Have a look at bug
#1209. It seems that the .NET P/Invoke feature is also not capable of calling
an exported function pointer, which actually is stored in the library's .data
section.