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From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List [mailto:ASSEMBLER-
l...@listserv.uga.edu] On Behalf Of Tony Thigpen
Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2017 11:28 AM
To: ASSEMBLER-LIST@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: Re: Quick error termination of an assembler routine (Was:
Performance of Decimal Floating Point Instruction)
For initial testing and debugging, I like:
DC X'00xx' where 'nn' is a unique number. I get a blow-up and by looking at
the instruction in the dump, I know which condition I hit without thinking.
Tony Thigpen
Charles Mills wrote on 05/11/2017 01:44 PM:
What is *wrong* with DC H'0'? It has the advantage of being incredibly
straightforward. I had to spend a minute thinking about J *+2; I pretty much
guarantee you anyone with six months of HLASM experience would "get" DC
H'0'.
I don't write much assembler anymore but if I did I think I might define a
bunch of error situation equates in the 0 < value < 256 range:
Blowup_no_input EQU 1
Blowup_invalid_parm EQU 2
Etc.
Then one could code
DC Y(Blowup_no_input)
And it would (a.) be somewhat self-documenting in the source code and
(b.) would more or less diagnose itself in a dump.
And if 255 were not enough codes, one could go to 16 million+ with DC
FL4(Blowup_whatever).
Frankly, I use DC H'0 very infrequently, usually only temporarily ("I can't
possibly be going through this code, could I?"). If is a "real" error then it
should have a "real" termination with messages, a return code, a user ABEND,
whatever is appropriate to the context, but something better than a
S0C1/S0C3/S0C7. Three years from now if our support crew gets a call
reporting a S0C1/S0C3/S0C7 are they going to have a clue? But if we staked
out a user ABEND number that we always used then they could go "aha!" and
look up the reason code.
Charles
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From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List
[mailto:ASSEMBLER-LIST@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of John McKown
Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2017 10:24 AM
To: ASSEMBLER-LIST@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: Re: Performance of Decimal Floating Point Instruction
On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 12:12 PM, Paul Gilmartin < 00000014e0e4a59b-
dmarc-requ...@listserv.uga.edu> wrote:
On 2017-05-11, at 06:34, Charles Mills wrote:
If you need a way to ABEND, use the proper LE service, or an
assembler
routine. Anything else will bite you sooner or later.
AMEN!
No more "DC H'0'"
My current favorite is : J *+2 which results in a S0C1, since it is now
guaranteed that x'00' will _never_ be used as a valid opcode. It replaces my
previous favorite of: EX * which is an S0C3.
