Re: Word-1 of the Co nventional Save Area #8207;

2010-02-04 Thread Tom Marchant
On Thu, 4 Feb 2010 11:54:44 -0600, McKown, John wrote: Of course, I always zero 8(,13) just before I RETURN (in HLASM). Of course? Why? -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send

Re: Word-1 of the Co nventional Save Area #8207;

2010-02-04 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Tom Marchant Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2010 12:54 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Word-1 of the Co nventional Save Area ‏ On Thu, 4 Feb 2010 11:54:44 -0600, McKown, John

Re: Word-1 of the Co nventional Save Area #8207;

2010-02-04 Thread Rick Fochtman
Tom Marchant wrote: On Thu, 4 Feb 2010 11:54:44 -0600, McKown, John wrote: Of course, I always zero 8(,13) just before I RETURN (in HLASM). Of course? Why? So you know where the chain ends in a dump. -- For

Re: Word-1 of the Co nventional Save Area #8207;

2010-02-04 Thread Tom Marchant
On Thu, 4 Feb 2010 14:57:05 -0600, Rick Fochtman wrote: Tom Marchant wrote: On Thu, 4 Feb 2010 11:54:44 -0600, McKown, John wrote: Of course, I always zero 8(,13) just before I RETURN (in HLASM). Of course? Why? So you know where the chain ends in a dump. What's wrong with register

Re: Word-1 of the Co nventional Save Area #8207;

2010-02-04 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Tom Marchant Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2010 3:43 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Word-1 of the Co nventional Save Area ‏ On Thu, 4 Feb 2010 14:57:05 -0600, Rick Fochtman

Re: Word-1 of the Co nventional Save Area #8207;

2010-02-04 Thread Bernd Oppolzer
No. Most compiled languages, including PL/1, don't do forward chaining. We did it by ourselves for years to make the SYSUDUMPs more readable. But in the end we gave up and wrote our own dump routine which follows the back chain starting from reg 13. In the LE manuals it is explicitly stated

Re: Word-1 of the Co nventional Save Area #8207;

2010-02-04 Thread Bernd Oppolzer
A similar topic: entry points in SYSUDUMPs Save Area Trace can have a message attached, containing, for example, function names, compile dates etc., if the machine codes at the entry are coded in the right way. That is, Branch, one byte length field, the message. Our home grown start macro

Re: Word-1 of the Co nventional Save Area #8207;

2010-02-04 Thread zMan
2010/2/4 Bernd Oppolzer bernd.oppol...@t-online.de A similar topic: entry points in SYSUDUMPs Save Area Trace can have a message attached, containing, for example, function names, compile dates etc., if the machine codes at the entry are coded in the right way. That is, Branch, one byte