On Tue, 2011-04-12 at 01:22 -0400, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote: > At 16:07 -0400 on 04/11/2011, Tom Marchant wrote about Re: Best way > to multiply doublewords?: > > > >you'd need to look at the passed in save area to see if you were > >>supplied with one which has room for the upper half of the registers. > > > >You can not tell by looking at the save area that was passed to you > >to determine the size of the save area that was passed to you. > > I though that there was a flag (a text FxSA string) in the first word > of the save area if it is not a standard 72-byte SA. That should be a > tip-off to you being passed an extended SA. That flag is required so > that the dump formatting software can correctly format your save area > chain.
That's what I was trying, and failing, to remember. Thanks. Damn meds! -- John McKown Maranatha! <><
