On 7/2/2016 9:56 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
On Sat, 2 Jul 2016 08:27:12 -0700, Ed Jaffe wrote:
The secondary reason is IEBEYEBALL of dumps, traces, etc. If an address
contains 7FFFFBAD then you know it's an intentionally "bad" address.

Hmmm.  If you branch to it, do you get an addressing exception or a
specification exception.  I'd guess the latter, but it might be model
dependent.

It's not model dependent. You never get a specification exception on a branch.

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Edward E Jaffe
Phoenix Software International, Inc
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