On Thu, 27 Oct 2022 12:14:19 -0500, Charles Mills <[email protected]> wrote:
>    ...
>2. Is there any equivalent way to get the contents of GPR 0 (short of writing 
>an assembler front-end, which is a small PITA of its own)? Why? So a routine 
>called from Rexx could get the Environment Block address. Or does anyone have 
>another good way of getting that?
>
Characteristic undisciplined CMS designer behavior: "No one cares about GPR 0,
so we can just use it for the Environment Block address."

I think I've seen similar uses of GPR 0 in CMS code.

(CDC 6K series made B0 a hardwired 0, so developers weren't so tempted.
But it still caused pipeline block.)

>3.Any other cool stuff available from __gtab()?
>
No help in 
<https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.5.0?topic=files-gfunch-gtca-gtab-functions>.
Is there any access to the RSA?

-- 
gil

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