imho, using the LE framework is an excellent idea for beginning assembler programming. You can actually do "Hello World!" in just a few more lines than C. And it lets you defer the gritty details of linkage and DCBs and such until after some visible results are obtained. It's almost as easy as ASSIST or SPASM from back in the day.
sas On Wed, Sep 21, 2022 at 6:18 AM John McKown <john.archie.mck...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 20, 2022 at 4:32 PM Tom Brennan <t...@tombrennansoftware.com> > wrote: > > > Spitting out messages with formatted values was always a hassle for me > > in assembler. So years ago I wrote some code to somewhat mimic printf, > > and never looked back. Invoked by macros something like this: > > > > #PRINTF SYSPRINT,'THIS IS LINE %D OF %D',VAR1,VAR2 > > #PRINTF SYSPRINT,'THIS IS STRING %S HERE',STR1 > > #PRINTF SYSPRINT,'DATA IS %08X',POINTER > > > > Being lazy, all my current HLASM code is LE compliant using the CEEENTRY & > CEETERM macros. And I just use the C runtime library routine, snprintf() to > format my messages. > > Yes, I have embraced the "dark side" of just using Language Environment. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
