In a recent note, "Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)" said:
> Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 21:56:27 -0300
>
> In <[log in to unmask]>, on 09/19/2005
> at 10:52 PM, Paul Gilmartin <[log in to unmask]> said:
>
> >What's a good and very reliable way to write a step which sets its
> >return code to a particular non-zero value?
>
> SET666 CSECT ,
> LA R15,666
> BR R14
> END
>
The number of similar suggestions I received show me I
failed to be sufficiently clear. By "a step", I meant
_one_ step. The above requires at least two: assemble
and load-and-go. The following, however, works:
START
DC H'0'
MNOTE 222,'whatever'
END
(HLASM imposes a limit of 255 on return code. Very
stingy to save 3 bytes somewhere.)
-- gil
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