Re: Literals: are terms with different length attributes permitted?

2018-05-04 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On 2018-05-04, at 17:12:03, Charles Mills wrote: > I don't really know but this seems similar to a thread here a little while > ago. There are different parsers for different things in the assembler. > PDP-6 assembler had a laudable orthogonality that never spread widely: o There was no DC ins

Re: Literals: are terms with different length attributes permitted?

2018-05-04 Thread Keven
Hi David, Could you not code it as =X’01000203’ instead? Keven On Fri, May 4, 2018 at 6:12 PM -0500, "Charles Mills" wrote: I don't really know but

Re: Literals: are terms with different length attributes permitted?

2018-05-04 Thread Charles Mills
I don't really know but this seems similar to a thread here a little while ago. There are different parsers for different things in the assembler. =X'01000203' will work but that is probably not what you want. You might be able to make a macro that constructed this for you. =AD((1*X'100

Literals: are terms with different length attributes permitted?

2018-05-04 Thread David Eisenberg
Hi everyone, I have a question regarding the syntax of literals; I'm not sure if what I'm trying to do is valid. Please consider this DC statement: MYCONST DCAL3(1),AL2(2),AL3(3) Note that the length attributes differ amongst the terms above. Is it possible to code that entire expression