> I really can't imagine coding a 64-bit assembler program.  Kind of like 
> looking at IPV6 addresses.

Only half as bad <g>.

Charles

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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf 
Of Tom Brennan
Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2016 5:35 PM
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Subject: Re: 64-bit caller and VL-bit

Paul Gilmartin wrote:

> And the UNIX argv[] vector is terminated by a NULL (0) pointer, not -1.

Don't people usually use the argc (parm count) value also passed in unix 
main()?  If so they would never go past the end of argv[].

But I do like ending things with zeros instead of FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF. 
Wow, that's a lot of F's - I really can't imagine coding a 64-bit assembler 
program.  Kind of like looking at IPV6 addresses.

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