> OI 15(13),X'01' SET RETURN INDICATION 01600000

 

Back in the old days ISTR it set x'FF' to indicate the end of the savearea 
chain.  

 

 

 
> Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 13:32:02 -0600
> From: paulgboul...@aim.com
> Subject: Re: Word-1 of the Co nventional Save Area
> To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
> 
> On Thu, 4 Feb 2010 13:06:10 -0600, McKown, John 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?
> >
> >Habit, I guess. I regard that as a "dangling pointer" which may or may not 
> >be valid, so I zero it.
> >
> SYS1.MACLIB(RETURN) also contains:
> 
> OI 15(13),X'01' SET RETURN INDICATION 01600000
> 
> FWIW,
> gil
                                          
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