On Wednesday, November 27, 2019, 04:39:07 AM PST, John McKown 
<john.archie.mck...@gmail.com> wrote:
 
 
> Total agreement that it is bad form in today's world. For subsystems, there

> is the SSCT to anchor things. And, as I do for my re-entrant code: a

> Name/Token pair (primary address space level) to hold a 64-bit pointer

> (even in 24 or 31 bit mode, I make sure the pointer is 64-bit clean)..

If you really need speed, check if IBM has any user vector table entries 
specifically assigned for customer use. 4 load instructions instead of 
searching thru a chain. IBM assigns each entry (e.g. product vendor request). I 
vaguely recall it being called CSRCTABL but I could be wrong.

Jon.  

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