Thomas, No problems whatsoever... Tom Harper ________________________________
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Thomas Berg Sent: Tue 9/20/2005 10:57 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: z/Architecture Principles of Operation (SA22-7832-04) Thanks, was it any problems regarding certain instructions/operations and if so, had you some interestion solutions for them ? TIA Thomas Berg ====== Tom Harper ====== wrote 2005-09-21 05:41: > Thomas, > > We have used the long-displacement instructions to allow for the generation > of additional "compiled" code over the short-displacement instructions, if > the machine environment supports them, removing the old size limitations of > +/- 64K. It was really not all that difficult to implement (baseless code > generation). We have actually converted most of our critical-path instruction > sequences to baseless code, believing future machines will execute these > instructions faster, due to fewer base-register interlocks. This was fairly > straight-foward using the structured programming facilities of HLASM. > > Tom Harper > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
