> :>> :>> I don't see any obvious Millicode support for the AR address, so 
I 
> :>query 
> :>> :>-
> :>> :>> when a PC defined with an ARR is executed, does it cause an 
> :>interrupt 
> :>> :>which
> :>> :>> then issues IEAARR under the covers? That a FRR would be faster?
> 
> :>> :>  ARR is a software concept, not machine architecture.  Nothing 
> :>special
> :>> :>happens with regard to an ARR when the PC instruction is executed.
> 
> :>> :> RTM2 processing examines the linkage stack to look for ARRs.
> 
> :>> Maybe I am looking in the wrong manual, but the POPs does not show 
me 
> :>where
> :>> this ARR pointer is saved in either the Entry Table or Linkage Stack 

> :>entry.
> 
> :>  z/OS uses the Entry Parameter in the Entry-Table Entry to point to 
an
> :>area of ESQA storage which contains the user parms and the ARR 
> :>information. 
> 
> Would that mean that the latent parameter area is longer, and that I 
just use
> the first two words? I still get the same R4, correct? 

  That is correct.

Jim Mulder   z/OS System Test   IBM Corp.  Poughkeepsie,  NY


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