IIRC, that is the same layout I noticed back in college during the 70's.

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> Subject: Re: 32760? (was: PARMDD?)
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> On 3/28/2013 1:17 PM, John Gilmore wrote:
> > I did not find Kevin Kelley's post entirely persuasive.  This
> > restriction long antedates 2 Kibyte pages, and the equation 8 x 2048 =
> > 32768 is thus historically irrelevant.
> >
> > Does the two-fullword---not doubleword?---prefix have the structure
> > |?|?|?|?|?||?|?|c|c|, in which |c|c| is the length L >= 0 in bytes of
> > the PARM value?
> 
>  From looking at a dump the format is:
> 
> pppppppp 0000llll xxxxxxx
> 
> At entry R1 points to pppppppp
> 
> pppppppp is the pointer to the length field of the parm (high bit on).
> 
> llll  is the length of the parm
> 
> xxxxxxx is the value of the parm
> 
> In my case the pppppppp field is on a double word boundary, making
> the parm value also on a double word boundary. I suspect this is on
> purpose, but I haven't looked for documentation to support this.
> 
> --
> Richard
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