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From: rickert@CS.NIU.EDU (Neil Rickert)
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Subject: Re: GETMAIN
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Date: 24 Feb 91 01:31:26 GMT
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In article <9102232014.AA08196@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> you write:
>
>     I'm a bit confused about how to get GETMAIN to give me an amount of
>memory determined at execution time, rather than assembly time.  I seemed
>to have no problems with
>
>     GETMAIN R,LV=1000
>
>What would I have to specify to get, say, a number of bytes equal to the
>number of bytes in register 2?  GETMAIN always returns a chunk of memory
>alligned on a doubleword boundary, right?

 How about
	GETMAIN R,LV=(2)
	or
	GETMAIN R,LV=0(2)
 I believe either will work.  The first will definitely work.

 Yes, you get doubleword alignment.

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  Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science               <rickert@cs.niu.edu>
  Northern Illinois Univ.
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