Paul Gilmartin wrote: | But no SVCs. Probably no system facilities understand | 64-bit addresses.
SVCs are obsolescent. We all perforce use them, but when I am beginning at sq On 12/6/12, Paul Gilmartin <paulgboul...@aim.com> wrote: > On Thu, 6 Dec 2012 18:09:37 -0600, Mike Schwab wrote: > >>I am wondering if z/OS 2.x will bring 64 bit address constants into >>the operating system so everything can run above the 2GB bar. >> > Ever so slowly. I understand that 1.13 will let code run above the 4GiB > (not 2) bar. (How does it get there?) It can even tolerate interrupts and > redispatch from them. I suspect that from the developers' point that's > a major advance. What goes in the IRB? Where does it keep the > Grande OPSW? But no SVCs. Probably no system facilities understand > 64-bit addresses. Likely the next step is SVCs, but the arguments will > still need to reside below (even like access methods yet). > > The software bloat juggernaut will force IBM's hand. > > -- gil > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA t. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
