On Tue, 13 Feb 2018 20:00:47 -0600, Jim Ruddy wrote: >Wouldn't a 64K byte parameter list run into problems with programs such as >HLASM, compilers, and other programs which allow an optional DD name list to >be passed as a second parameter when invoked from a program? As I recall, they >detect whether the DD name list is passed by testing the high bit - the "sign" >bit - of the first parameter. > No, they test the high bit of the *address* of the first parameter.
(VL is not supported in 64-bit mode.) -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN