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On August 20, 2025 11:58:03 PM Seymour J Metz <sme...@gmu.edu> wrote:
I'm fully aware of that, must I've never run into a use case, while I've
had lots of cases where I wanted to fill an area with, e.g., X'00', X'40'.
If I ver run into a situation where I want to initialize to a repeating
multibyte situation then MVC would be the way to go. I'm not saying it
won't happen, or that others haven't run ino it. just that I haven't yet.
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On 2025-08-21 05:45, Seymour J Metz wrote:
I've only ever used an overlapping move to fill a field with identical
values,
and MVCL with a zero source length works fine for that.
An overlapping MVC can be used to propagate a half word, or full word,
or whatever ...
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