Re: Usefullness (or not) of STOC/LOC instructions?

2012-11-28 Thread Paul Gilmartin
Why do people find it so hard to reply to the same list on which the original message appears? I don't know that I've seen Dave on ASSEMBLER-LIST. On Nov 27, 2012, at 12:16, Gord Tomlin wrote: Dave, can you repost your instruction sequences one above the other? For me, they are garbled and I

Re: Usefullness (or not) of STOC/LOC instructions?

2012-11-28 Thread Gord Tomlin
Paul, I saw Dave's post here on ASSEMBLER-LIST and replied to it here on ASSEMBLER-LIST before I was even aware that Dave had also posted it on IBM-MAIN. Dave has posted here several times before, and FWIW I think his post was quite appropriate for ASSEMBLER-LIST. After all, one of his products

Re: Usefullness (or not) of STOC/LOC instructions?

2012-11-28 Thread Walt Farrell
On Wed, 28 Nov 2012 06:45:29 -0700, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: Why do people find it so hard to reply to the same list on which the original message appears? I don't know that I've seen Dave on ASSEMBLER-LIST. On Nov 27, 2012, at 12:16, Gord Tomlin wrote: Dave, can you repost

Usefullness (or not) of STOC/LOC instructions?

2012-11-27 Thread Thomas David Rivers
We've been using the STOC/LOC (STORE/LOAD ON CONDITION) instructions for some time... But, we just noticed a few words in the Principles of Operations (I'm quoting from the STOC discussion): When the condition specified by the M3 field is not met (that is, store operation is not