> 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 _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail: Free, trusted and rich email service. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/201469228/direct/01/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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