In article <caarmm9rskjgk-ypgufnhowtvkpbjbykdk0cr2i3vnnrrurx...@mail.gmail.com> you wrote: > On 21 October 2014 10:09, Tom Marchant < > 0000000a2a8c2020-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > I've never seen a case where "BALR is used to return to the caller."
> Well... Here's the epilog code for a non-main function generated by an > oldish version of IBM C: > 00010E Start of Epilog > 00010E 58D0 D004 00413 | L r13,4(,r13) > 000112 58E0 D00C 00413 | L r14,12(,r13) > 000116 9824 D01C 00413 | LM r2,r4,28(r13) > 00011A 051E 00413 | BALR r1,r14 > 00011C 0707 00413 | NOPR 7 > 00011E 0000 > 000120 Start of Literals > 000120 0100018D =F'16777613' > 000124 05000194 =F'83886484' > 000128 0900019A =F'150995354' > 00012C End of Literals > Why they use[d] BALR I don't know, but surely they don't plan to return to > the NOPR and the certain program check that follows. Perhaps the NOPR can > be changed to something else for debugging. > Tony H. It's just a way to pass a parm to the library epilog routine. I would guess that '7' just means 'normal epilog'. The library looks at what R1+1 contains and makes various decisions based on the value. -- Don Poitras - SAS Development - SAS Institute Inc. - SAS Campus Drive sas...@sas.com (919) 531-5637 Cary, NC 27513 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
