On Tue, 24 Mar 2020 11:17:36 -0500 Paul Gilmartin
<[email protected]> wrote:

:>On Mon, 23 Mar 2020 05:15:15 -0400, Thomas David Rivers wrote:

:>>I think I've run into an interesting problem with ESTAEX
:>>when it is invoked in AMODE 64 without SYSTATE AMODE=64
:>>set at assembly time.
 
:>What services, IBM or ISV, nowadays can *not* be invoked:
:>o In AMODE 64?

PC invoked? - pretty much anything. It really annoyed me that IBM trumpeted
support for 64 bit callers for many services when the hardware did all the
work.

:>o With parameters above-the-bar?

That was the issue.

:>o Called from an address above-the-bar?

Should not be an issue for PC invoked.

:>I.e. when can programmers forget about 31 and 24?

Never.

:>And there's a residue of data with 31-bit (24?) pointers.

Yep. Downward compatibility and all that.

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