The PGFREEA macro makes virtual storage areas, below 16 megabytes, that were fixed by the PGFIXA macro eligible for page-out.
The standard form of the PGFREEA macro is written as follows:
Syntax | Description |
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name | name: Symbol. Begin name in column 1. |
␢ | One or more blanks must precede PGFREEA. |
PGFREEA | |
␢ | One or more blanks must follow PGFREEA. |
No additional parameters are specified.
If the PGFREEA is successful, all pages will be freed and register 15 will contain a return code of zero. If unsuccessful, all pages up to, but not including the one that caused the abend will be freed. The user will be abended with a system completion code of X‘171’.