On Wed, 13 Mar 2019 09:29:56 -0400, Don Poitras wrote: >In article <9784938220113382.wa.m42tomibmmainyahoo....@listserv.ua.edu> you >wrote: >> On Wed, 13 Mar 2019 08:00:14 -0400, Joseph Reichman wrote: > >> >Please let me better explain I have a program >> >That browses storage I do VSMLOC to verify if the storage was allocated if >> >not I use STORAGE OBTAIN with inaddr parm I was wondering if/ why there was >> >wasn???t anything comparable in 64 bit mode >> ROFL! That's the most ridiculous thing I have heard in a long time. >> What do you think the point of that is? >> -- >> Tom Marchant > >It sounds like the sort of thing people would do before name/token >came along. It lets code bootstrap it's way to finding a common >control block. I used to support code that used ENQ to do that.
Really? You want to examine a location in virtual storage. If that storage is not allocated in your address space, you use STORAGE OBTAIN to allocate storage at that address, so that you can examine it. What would you hope to find at that location, having just obtained it? -- Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
