Well, I don't think that's what the OP said. Furthermore, that's not how LOCASCB works.
I have occasionally seen unnecessary levels of indirection, but this isn't one of them. sas On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 10:21 AM Seymour J Metz <sme...@gmu.edu> wrote: > > I'm a bit puzzled about the original question. Using addresses > > of things is fundamental to how computers work. > > Using addresses of addresses is not. The OP's question was why the > parameter was an address of a word containing another address, rather than > just taking that other address directly as a parameter. > > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
