> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Gary Weinhold
> Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 10:38 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: RES: Parameter passing: overly cautious or
> properly paranoid?
>
>   1)  I don't check and it wouldn't make a difference unless they are
> mapped by a DSECT.  We LM them and STM them into our own fullwords.
>
> 2)  To accommodate easier coding in C++, we accept a fullword
> of zeroes
> as the final argument in lieu of a the high-order bit on calls with a
> variable number of parameters.  But we do check all
> parameters, even the
> required ones.
>
> Gary Weinhold
> Data Kinetics, Ltd.

Now that is interesting! Do you use a standard parm list with the last address 
with bit 0 set, and just add an F'0' after that one? Or do you code your HLASM 
to look for the F'0' and not to test for bit 0 set?

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