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Status Future consideration
Workspace z/OS
Categories LE
Created by Guest
Created on Jun 12, 2014

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LE Support needed for F8SA format 64-bit save area - COBOL 5/Assembler compatibilty

Updates for the LE Condition Handler's Save-Area trace logic to handle the current, and all future, IBM recommended Save Area formats.
The current format of the save areas is used throughout all of Language Environment and the F8SA format is not compatible with this design and supports only 31-bit addr saveareas. The problem is that in the F8SA format (as documented by IBM Assembler Services Guide (SA22-7605-12) ) the save area back chain pointer has moved from near the beginning of the save area to near the end. The former location of the back chain pointer is set to F8SA to indicate you are using the new format and to look for the back chain pointer at its new location. In addition to the F8SA format, we are also looking for support for the F4SA (64-bit GPRs saved in caller's save area) and F7SA (64-bit GPRs and 32-bit ARs saved in caller's save area) formats.COBOL 5 is using 64-bit save area addrs and Assembler program compatibility requires that we do the same somehow. However, the LE support is just not there at this time.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    |     Jun 14, 2014

    Creating a new RFE based on Community RFE #54815 in product z/OS.

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