Look at the Load halfword. Both LH and LHI are described there in the
ESA POP.

Regards, 
Richard Schuh 

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: The IBM z/VM Operating System 
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ward, Mike S
> Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 10:47 AM
> To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
> Subject: Re: Missing the "nonames" option on SFS commands
> 
> Where did you learn about the LHI instruction. I that a Load 
> Halfword immediate? I looked at the hlasm books and they deal 
> mostly with macros.
> I also looked at principle of operations manuals, but seem to 
> have all the old assembler instructions and not any new ones.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: The IBM z/VM Operating System 
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alan Altmark
> Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 9:15 AM
> To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
> Subject: Re: Missing the "nonames" option on SFS commands
> 
> On Friday, 08/01/2008 at 09:44 EDT, Kris Buelens 
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> >   REGEQU
> >   USING *,R15
> >   L     R15,=A(32)
> >   BR    R14
> 
> Just to help folks advance their assembler programming, this 
> program would these days consist of
>     REGEQU
>     LHI  R15,32
>     BR   R14
> 
> In S/390 architecture, Load Halfword Immediate sign-extends 
> the 16-bit second operand to 32 bits.  Note also the lack of 
> the USING.
> 
> I know it's off-topic, but it IS Friday!  :-)
> 
> Alan Altmark
> z/VM Development
> IBM Endicott
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