Re: Prefixing (was Questionable Instructions in Obtaining EAX documentation)

2019-11-09 Thread Seymour J Metz
No problem, I've gotten names wrong myself, although I try not to. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List on behalf of Dan Greiner Sent: Friday, November 8, 2019 12:37 PM To: ASSEMBLER-LIST@LISTSERV

Re: Prefixing (was Questionable Instructions in Obtaining EAX documentation)

2019-11-09 Thread Seymour J Metz
I wrote nothing uncivil, and I certainly saw nothing uncivil in DGs message. please cease forthwith referring to imaginary spats between lis members, which some might regard as uncivil to both sides of the imaginary spat. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 __

Re: Prefixing (was Questionable Instructions in Obtaining EAX documentation)

2019-11-09 Thread Seymour J Metz
DATA in OS/VS1 and SVS provided fragmentation relief even though there was only a single address space. Your program could do a getmain for a large array and never tie up page frames beyond the part that it actually used. Think sparse arrays. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~s

Re: Questionable Instructions in Obtaining EAX documentation

2019-11-09 Thread Kerry Liles
Old habits die hard... I still just useLA 1,256although now I might just code it asLA 1,256(,0) :) Notice in the example where there was a USING 0,9 that the assembler ends up choosing the highest numbered register (9 versus 0 in this case) when more than one USING is in effec

Re: Questionable Instructions in Obtaining EAX documentation

2019-11-09 Thread Martin Truebner
>> Should it produce a warming about ambiguous resolution? yea- warming like: if you continue doing that, someone will give you a bad carma (and hence you end up in a warm place) ;-) -- Martin

Re: Questionable Instructions in Obtaining EAX documentation

2019-11-09 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On 2019-11-09, at 06:32:45, Peter Relson wrote: > > > USING 0,9 > > Got me. Obviously you're right that with that in effect the two LA forms > produce different results. > Should it produce a warming about ambiguous resolution? (I know that can be suppressed.) -- gil

Re: Questionable Instructions in Obtaining EAX documentation

2019-11-09 Thread Peter Relson
USING 0,9 Got me. Obviously you're right that with that in effect the two LA forms produce different results. Peter Relson z/OS Core Technology Design

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