On Mon, 27 Aug 2012 14:13:12 -0500 "McKown, John" <john.mck...@healthmarkets.com> wrote:
:>Very nice! I'll just eliminate the LTR as other posts have shown and use the AR R15,0 / BR R14 that Mr. Ehrman showed as well. I first came up with my "solution" when I was a wee, young sysprog and have never bothered to change. "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." :> :> CALL ... :> LTR R15,R15 :> JM BAD_RC :> CHI R15,MAXJUMPS :> LA R0,3 :> NR R0,R15 Why not TMLL R15,3 :> JNZ BAD_RC :> LARL R0,JUMPS :> AR R15,R0 :> BR R15 :>JUMPS J RC0 :> J RC4 :> J RC8 :>MAXJUMPS EQU (*-JUMPS)/4 :> :>I did the LTR / JM to include checking a negative RC, instead of the CL Tony used, because I wanted to avoid needing a base register. Yes, I know I need one for the literal pool if I have any literals. I try to avoid literals as much as possible by using immediate instructions where the value is defined in an EQU. -- Binyamin Dissen <bdis...@dissensoftware.com> http://www.dissensoftware.com Director, Dissen Software, Bar & Grill - Israel Should you use the mailblocks package and expect a response from me, you should preauthorize the dissensoftware.com domain. I very rarely bother responding to challenge/response systems, especially those from irresponsible companies.
