The fullword is a standard plist, so the high bit is set as a end of list indicator.
As I see, there is little to no need for a program to need to know whether the parm was generated by PARM or PARMX. If the length is over 100, it came from PARMX. If it was less than 101, then either PARM or PARMX was used, but does it really matter which? -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Robert A. Rosenberg Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 11:27 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: A modest PARM proposal <snip> Assuming that the Fullword pointer has its High Bit set to 0 right now, this bit can act as a flag to signal the PARMX format (ie: Set it to 1 for the new format). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
