On Wed, 27 Nov 2019 17:26:35 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote:

>TSS/360 used an explicit length at offset -4 from the parameter list, so the 
>end-of-list bit wasn't an issue.

>The addresses transition from 7FFFFFFF_FFFFFFFF to 80000000_00000000 is a z/OS 
>issue rather than an architectural issue.

I beg to differ with respect to the need for care when using BXHG and BXLEG. 
Because the values are treated as signed 64-bit integers for the purposes of 
addition and comparison, the transition from the maximum positive number 
to the maximum negative number can cause an issue regardless of operating 
system.

-- 
Tom Marchant

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