I’m afraid those sequences only make sense when you wrote them, not much later. I inherited similar attempts to code the length of data. Just don’t.
On Fri, 3 Aug 2018 at 18:03, Tony Thigpen <t...@vse2pdf.com> wrote: > I was taught that to make it easy to read, do the following: > BL *+4+2 > LR R1,R2 > or > BL *+4+2+4 > LR R1,R2 > LA R3,0(,r1) > It may not look right in your email, but the branched around > instructions are indented one extra character. > > Tony Thigpen > > Phil Smith III wrote on 08/03/2018 10:40 AM: > > Peter Relson wrote: > > > > I don't remember who taught me the technique, though it must have been > at UofW in the early 80s. I internalized it as "This isn't a 'real' > branch-that is, we aren't going very far, just skipping a single > instruction". And I would never, ever, ever consider doing it for more than > one instruction. > > > > >
