Re: PLO register specifications?

2017-10-11 Thread Peter Relson
>What is the recommended practice for what >registers to specify? Surely there is no "recommended" practice. You use whatever you feel like that meets your needs. If something is not allowed, that is what the PoOp would explain. And possibly would also explain things that might not work under

Re: PLO register specifications?

2017-10-11 Thread Rob Scott
regs from working storage. Rob -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Charles Mills Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2017 7:06 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: PLO register specifications? The syntax of PLO is of course PLO

PLO register specifications?

2017-10-10 Thread Charles Mills
The syntax of PLO is of course PLO R1,D2(B2),R3,D4(B4). For many of the operation codes (5, e.g.) R1 and R3 (in the syntax, not GPRs 1 and 3) are unused. What is the recommended practice for what registers to specify? It seems odd to me that the PoOp is silent. GPR 0 would be the obvious choice, b