In <listserv%[email protected]>, on 07/01/2011
   at 03:45 PM, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> said:

>What do LINK and ATTACH respectively pass the child program as a save
>area pointer?

As documented, LINK leaves R2-R13 alone. ATTACH creates a save area
for the new task and puts its address in the subtask R13, while
leaving the main tasks R13 alone. 

>If the caller ATTACHes multiple subtasks, must it provide a separate
>save area for each?

There's no way to do that. As documented, ATTACH(X) provides the new
save area, not the caller.
 
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