Dave,

IBM is telling you that R14 is not important!  How dare you question the
coding gods that we must all provide supplication to?

Just kidding.  Sorry.. LOL

It seems a bit arbitrary that you would have to what .... make sure the
trace table went far enough back to see what R14 was?  Or worse.. have to
take a stand-alone dump?

Maybe a slip trap for all modifications of R14!!! That the ticket to
absurd-ville.

Rob Schramm

On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 2:10 PM Thomas David Rivers <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Paul Gilmartin wrote:
>
> >On Mon, 4 Jun 2018 16:58:31 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >>PER uses program interrupts, not an SVC.
> >>
> >>That said, calling an SVC does not normally alter R14; the SVC would
> have to do something unusual.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >Does either PER or SVC preserve the program mask (CC, ILC, ...)?
> >If so, that's the one dbx ought to use.
> >
> >Saving these things can be important if you break just before an IPM
> instruction.
> >
> >-- gil
> >
> >
> >
> >
> It's not the saving of the registers/PSW state that is at question, it's
> the
> changing of it.
>
> Imagine you're debugging a program and hit a break-pt, and would like to
> change a register/PSWA before continuing... that's what we're talking
> about here.
>
> IBM provides the facilities to do this for all the registers _except_ R14.
>
>      - Dave R. -
>
>
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