Works better than it used to! It's good to ~2 billion now, right? Was only good 
to ~16 million when they coded it.

I'm not confused on how LA works in AMODE 31, am I? I never use it for integer 
arithmetic anymore so I could be off base here.

Charles


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Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2019 11:01 PM
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Subject: Re: Questionable Instructions in Obtaining EAX documentation

On Sat, 9 Nov 2019 at 20:51, Kerry Liles <kerry.li...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Old habits die hard... I still just use    LA  1,256    although now I
> might just code it as    LA   1,256(,0)
>

I'm more worried about old code and old programmers doing LA 1,1(,1) doing
arithmetic.

Rob

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