I am guessing the length may be stored somewhere in the vicinity of the area top address, say within 8-16 bytes ABOVE it.
At least this is how CICS handles GETMAIN requests which also don't require length on the FREEMAINs. Of course, if the convention is not documented it may change at any time ... -Victor- ============================================= > I very much doubt it. Yeah, me too. But I thought I might be missing something and better ask. >I'm curious; what will you do with this info if it is available? I'm asking because I have been asked by our middle war guys. Our applications are required to use our own middle ware service routines for certain functions instead of HLL or LE or CICS services directly. (This is not part of the discussion.) They wanted to know if there is a possibility to retrieve the length somehow instead of remembering it somewhere in own data structures. (I don't know more details about the why and what for.) Thanks for the hint regarding LE possibly rounding up. Since I do not know details what they intend to do, I cannot say if this rouding is important for them. But I'll pass it on. Thanks -- Peter Hunkeler -- Peter Hunkeler ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
