IHMO, the mnemonic for BCT was not well-chosen.
Better might have been DBZ
for Decrement and Branch on Zero.
As for the below case of BALR, clearly, there needed to be yet another
instruction :-
DWIM
(Do What I Mean)
-----Original Message-----
From: Bernd Oppolzer <[email protected]>
Date: Saturday, 11 February 2012 3:36
Subject: Re: code comments
>My favourite one is:
>
> BALR R3,0 SUBTRACT 1 FROM R3
>
>Obviously, the opcode is wrong, should be BCTR.
