On Sat, 2 Jul 2016 08:27:12 -0700, Ed Jaffe wrote: > >The secondary reason is IEBEYEBALL of dumps, traces, etc. If an address >contains 7FFFFBAD then you know it's an intentionally "bad" address. > Hmmm. If you branch to it, do you get an addressing exception or a specification exception. I'd guess the latter, but it might be model dependent.
And it might be a good value for NULL if programmers could be relied on to use casting rather than type punning. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
