On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Adam Johanson <adam.johan...@usaa.com>wrote:
> Could someone please enlighten me as to what the purpose is/was of the > first word of a save area? > > Usually when I'm going through a dump it's not important, but I have seen > LE put some control information in there. I've also heard of programmers > putting program-specific stuff in there, but I'm curious as to what the > original > purpose was of it. > ISTR it was used by PL/I. Which, if you recall, was going to be The Language, used by everyone for everything, so wasting a fullword (worth something, back then!) was deemed reasonable. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
