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<cakxahqw_nnqu8pqfsy+fqowj0jtqhistds+pbw20sryo3he...@mail.gmail.com>,
on 12/30/2011
at 01:20 PM, Chris Craddock <[email protected]> said:
>Additional *SOFTWARE* architectural conditions may have to be
>satisfied in order for the instruction to complete,
ITYM that additional software conditions must be met before the OS
will set the necessary control register fields to allow execution of
the instructions. If the control registers are set then the
instructions will operate accordingly, regardless of any software
conditions.
>The often cited example is that the TRAP
>instructions are not supported by z/OS at all.
Sort of. You can use, e.g., ESTAE, to intercept the special operation
exception. It would be nice, however, if you could use ESPIE to trap
special operation exceptions.
--
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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