In <a6b9336cdb62bb46b9f8708e686a7ea005bde01...@nrhmms8p02.uicnrh.dom>, on
02/22/2010
   at 12:15 PM, "McKown, John" <john.mck...@healthmarkets.com> said:

>There is a very old, very terrible technique that I used long ago. I
>mention it, but do not recommend it. From the currently executing TCB,
>find the job step TCB (JSTCB). Pick up the TCBFSA pointer from that TCB,
>which is a pointer to the first save area. Use the word at offset +0 to
>hold your pointer.

Like may other "clever" mechanisms, it works fine when you are the only
one to use it and becomes interesting as soon as two independent pieces of
code use it.

But it's not my dog.
 
-- 
     Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
     ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> 
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)

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