Re: IARV64 REQUEST=DISCARDDATA Question

2023-09-26 Thread Ed Jaffe
On 9/26/2023 2:27 PM, Mike Shaw wrote: The doc does not say what that memory object's pages contain just after IARV64 REQUEST=GETSTOR is issued. Does anyone on the list know? Assuming you're referring to pageable memory, the object is completely empty waiting for you to reference something.

IARV64 REQUEST=DISCARDDATA Question

2023-09-26 Thread Mike Shaw
Based on the IARV64 doc in the z/OS Assembler Services Guide and in the z/OS Assembler Services Reference, an IARV64 REQUEST=GETSTOR should be followed by an IARV64 REQUEST=DISCARDDATA,CLEAR=YES in order to be certain that the obtained memory object contains no residual data. The doc does not say

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Re: Placeholder Instruction

2023-09-26 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On 9/26/23 08:21:32, Martin Ward wrote: On 26/09/2023 14:54, Paul Gilmartin wrote: It wold be futile to attempt to write a C program with semantics of a FORTRAN program.  It's futile to write an Assembler program which would work if it were COBOL. Polyglot would beg to differ:

Re: Placeholder Instruction

2023-09-26 Thread Kerry Liles
Martin, thanks for posting that interesting link to polyglot! Kerry Liles On Tue, Sep 26, 2023, 10:21 AM Martin Ward wrote: > On 26/09/2023 14:54, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > > It wold be futile to attempt to write a C program with > > semantics of a FORTRAN program. It's futile to write > > an

Re: Placeholder Instruction

2023-09-26 Thread Martin Ward
On 26/09/2023 14:54, Paul Gilmartin wrote: It wold be futile to attempt to write a C program with semantics of a FORTRAN program.  It's futile to write an Assembler program which would work if it were COBOL. Polyglot would beg to differ: https://ideology.com.au/polyglot/ :-) --

Re: Placeholder Instruction

2023-09-26 Thread Dave Clark
"IBM Mainframe Assembler List" wrote on 09/26/2023 09:54:44 AM: > Do you have a distaste for comments? Comments are your > friend. Add a comment explaining what you're doing. No, I do not have a distaste for comments. I like comments. I just prefer the look of the following over

Re: Placeholder Instruction

2023-09-26 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On 9/26/23 07:26:18, Dave Clark wrote: "IBM Mainframe Assembler List" wrote on 09/25/2023 05:55:23 PM: Just put another WHEN right after it. SELECT WHEN 1 something WHEN 2 WHEN 3 something ENDSEL , No

Re: Placeholder Instruction

2023-09-26 Thread Dave Clark
"IBM Mainframe Assembler List" wrote on 09/25/2023 05:55:23 PM: > Just put another WHEN right after it. > > > SELECT >WHEN 1 > something >WHEN 2 >WHEN 3 > something >ENDSEL , > > No need for a placeholder

Re: Placeholder Instruction

2023-09-26 Thread Binyamin Dissen
The macro does not know if there are any instructions in between. You are describing WHEN (2,3) On Tue, 26 Sep 2023 05:42:27 + Rene BRANDT <14a2846c6667-dmarc-requ...@listserv.uga.edu> wrote: :> hi, :> :>It's not the same between these 2 : :> :>WHEN 2 :> CONTINUE :>WHEN 3