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From: gah@HOOD.HOOD.CALTECH.EDU (Glen Herrmannsfeldt)
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Subject: Re: GETMAIN
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Date: 11 Mar 91 10:04:40 GMT
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Sorry about the SVC comment.  It was to suggest that the final
result of the macro is an SVC call, and that the goal of the
macro is to get the number into the register.  It has been
about 10 years since I did this, and that was OS/VS2 and OS/MVT.

The only reason I would suggest using the SVC is for the fun of
seeing the SVC work under unusual conditions, not hthat I can think
of many.

-- glen