Good idea. But does not free up the base register currently being used, for
other purposes. I have "cheated" again. I created a __LA macro which looks at
the first character of the name. If it is not a !, I generate the code for a
normal LA instruction. If it is a !, I strip it off and generate an LARL
instruction. I then use !symbol in my CALL for symbols in the current CSECT.
<code>
MACRO
&LBL __LA &OP1,&OP2
AIF ('&OP2'(1,1) EQ '!').LARL
&LBL _LA &OP1,&OP2
MEXIT
.LARL ANOP
LCLA &K
LCLC &OP2X
&K SETA K'&OP2
&K SETA &K-1
&OP2X SETC '&OP2'(2,&K)
&LBL LARL &OP1,&OP2X
MEND
_LA OPSYN LA
LA OPSYN __LA
</code>
Unfortunately, my attempts to replace my L instructions with LRL instructions
result in an S0C1 on my z9BC. I may "cheat" similarly on them as well. But I
don't like replacing one instruction with two. Decisions, decisions.
--
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List
> [mailto:ASSEMBLER-LIST@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of Gord Tomlin
> Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2012 3:41 PM
> To: ASSEMBLER-LIST@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Subject: Re: Enhanced CALL macro?
>
> What we do for this is use multiple location counters and code in our
> prolog/epilog macros to automatically set up a base register for the
> part of the CSECT containing the constants. The using range
> of the base
> register is automatically defined to cover only the constants
> so that no
> code inadvertently uses base/displacement branching. The code
> referring
> to constants "just works".
>
> --
>
> Regards, Gord Tomlin
> Action Software International
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>
> On 2012-01-10 16:20, McKown, John wrote:
> > I could use an enhanced CALL macro. I am writing RENT code
> and trying to be "baseless". For the RENT, I am using CALL
> with MF=(E,(1)) and GPR1 pointing to an array of fullwords in
> dynamic storage. The parameters within the CALL are a mixture
> of locations within the CSECT (these are read-only
> "constants") and areas in dynamic storage. Basically the CALL
> uses an "LA 0,..." to load the address of the parameter into
> GPR0 followed by a "ST 0,n(0,1)" to save the address in the
> parameter area. I wish that there were a way to tell the CALL
> to use a LARL instruction to address the parameters which are
> within the CSECT. Even if I had to do it on a parameter by
> parameter indicator, such as prefixing the symbol with an
> "invalid" character. For instance, a !. So my CALL would look
> like: CALL (15),(!IN_CSECT,IN_DYN),MF=(E,(1)) . So that CALL would use
> >
> > LARL 0,IN_CSECT
> > ST 0,0(0,1)
> > LA 0,IN_DYN
> > ST 0,4(0,1)
> > BALR 14,15
> >
> > This would eliminate almost all base+index instructions in
> my current code. Well, I still have a few MVCs and CLCs left too.
> >
> > Am I going too crazy? I'm a bit "register poor" because I
> really love to keep values in registers, rather than do
> redundant loads and stores.
> >
> >
> > --
> > John McKown
> > Systems Engineer IV
> > IT
> >
> > Administrative Services Group
> >
> > HealthMarkets(r)
> >
> > 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010
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> >
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> >
> >
>
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