Re: PC-SS vs PC-CP Curiosity

2012-01-23 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Sun, 22 Jan 2012 14:33:51 GMT "esst...@juno.com" wrote: :>Is there a difference in Cross Memory performance when calling a PC routine that is a Space Switching routine vs a Non Space Switching Routine. One would thinks so, as a SS-PC requires loading a new PASN and STO and the validation req

Re: PC-SS vs PC-CP Curiosity

2012-01-23 Thread Rob Scott
Paul I would imagine there is very little performance overhead difference calling PC-ss rather than PC-cp - maybe the only difference(s) being any AT lookup or ETCON for non-system LX. Normally, PC-ss routines access and/or manipulate control block structures in the cross-memory server address

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2012-01-23 Thread Anthony Hyde
I am out of the office until 01/25/2012. I will be out of the office. If you needed to contact me call me on my cell phone, at home and/or email me too. Note: This is an automated response to your message "Re: PC-SS vs PC-CP Curiosity" sent on 1/23/2012 7:05:55 AM. This is the only notificatio

Re: PC-SS vs PC-CP Curiosity

2012-01-23 Thread Peter Relson
I suggest that performance not be the consideration you should care about here (even if there is a small difference; I do not happen to know if there is). The main consideration should be your being considerate with respect to customer needs -- using common storage when it is not needed can be detr

Re: ASMA033I vs. ASMA033W

2012-01-23 Thread Craig Brookes
Hello David, ASMA033I with RC=000 goes back to at least HLASM R3, so no recent changes are apparent. ASMA213W (same message text as 033I) with RC=004 was introduced with APAR PQ39602 in HLASM R3, but only in the case where: a) Operands are the target of a branch yet have an odd-byte alig

Non-printable values in character strings - better way?

2012-01-23 Thread McKown, John
As I have mentioned, I've been writing some HLASM based UNIX programs for "fun", not "profit". Well, UNIX likes some non-printable control characters quite a bit. In particular, the TAB (x'05') and NewLine (x'15'). I the past, I have used ISPF edit, done a "hex on" and inserted the hex values ne

Re: Non-printable values in character strings - better way?

2012-01-23 Thread John Gilmore
John, The classical way to introduce non-printing, no-grapheme characters into an assembly-language program is to use the BYTE bif, as in |&nul setc BYTE(0) --nul character, x'00' The argument of the BYTE bif is a character-set code point or rank r, 0 <= r <= 255. --jg On 1/

Re: Non-printable values in character strings - better way?

2012-01-23 Thread McKown, John
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Re: Non-printable values in character strings - better way?

2012-01-23 Thread Steve Comstock
On 1/23/2012 1:41 PM, McKown, John wrote: As I have mentioned, I've been writing some HLASM based UNIX programs for "fun", not "profit". Well, UNIX likes some non-printable control characters quite a bit. In particular, the TAB (x'05') and NewLine (x'15'). I the past, I have used ISPF edit, don

Re: Non-printable values in character strings - better way?

2012-01-23 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On 1/23/2012 2:27 PM, Steve Comstock wrote: I prefer to just code something like: PrintLine DC C'This line is printed to "stdout".',x'15' But, of course, you need to watch for length attributes if you move or print or otherwise manipulate this; that is L'PrintLine will not include the one byte

Re: Non-printable values in character strings - better way?

2012-01-23 Thread retired mainframer
During edit, I use rarely used characters like ¢ (the cent sign) as a place holder and just before saving I issue C ALL ¢ x'15 to produce the desired hex value. :>: -Original Message- :>: From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List [mailto:ASSEMBLER- :>: l...@listserv.uga.edu] On Behalf Of McKown,

Re: Non-printable values in character strings - better way?

2012-01-23 Thread John Gilmore
We all find other people's notions of what constitutes good programming drôle. I disapprove, very strongly, of scattering magic numbers in source code. I also exploit the the availability of set symbols in open code, using them almost to the exclusion of equates. (I do use register equates, bec

Re: Non-printable values in character strings - better way?

2012-01-23 Thread John McKown
Your reasoning is better than mine. I don't want "magic numbers" or hex in my code because I use the z/OS UNIX "vi" on occasion to do a fast edit. And it does not like embedded NLs. It thinks (rightly) that they indicate the end of a line. And so does the "as" command, which I use via a makefile to