Details, details! :-) I don't know enough about it to give an educated answer (or guess). Frank
>________________________________ > From: "McKown, John" <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2012 9:38 AM >Subject: Re: DS 0H > >Well, just my personal oddity, I guess. No offense intended. I have many. As >many are aware of. Especially on IBM-MAIN where I am always showing how I can >do many things at a UNIX shell prompt more easily (for me) than using TSO REXX >programming. Got one person royally angry, as best as I can tell from his >reply phrasing and mild invective (incoherent use of crappy symbols like >, <, >and | ). > >The : on a label is an interesting idea. But I am unsure of what "align >properly" means. Do you mean to a halfword boundry? Or to the proper boundry >implied by the next instruction? The latter may be a bit difficult. But I >don't know because I don't know how the assembler does its parsing. What if >the next card has a pseudo op like USING or DROP instead of something which >has an implied or specified alignment requirement? > >-- >John McKown >Systems Engineer IV >IT > >Administrative Services Group > >HealthMarkets® > >9151 Boulevard 26 . N. Richland Hills . TX 76010 >(817) 255-3225 phone . >[email protected] . www.HealthMarkets.com > >Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or >proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact >the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. >HealthMarkets® is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the >insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance >Company®, Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA >Life and Health Insurance Company.SM > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Frank Swarbrick >> Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2012 10:25 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: DS 0H >> >> Why funny? Seems to me that: >> >> EXIT LABEL >> RETURN (14,12),RC=0 >> >> >> is a lot simpler to understand than >> EXIT DS 0H >> RETURN (14,12),RC=0 >> >> >> Of course anyone who's programmed assembler for more than one >> day knows that the DS 0H is for, but I prefer to have my code >> describe "what it's for" rather than "how it works". >> >> Personally, I think the assembler should support a feature >> where it would align properly if you specify a label followed >> by a colon. For example >> >> EXIT: >> RETURN (14,12),RC=0 >> >> >> or >> End_Processing: >> >> RETURN (14,12),RC=0 >> >> It's just more pleasing to my eye. >> >> Frank >> >> >> >> >________________________________ >> > From: "McKown, John" <[email protected]> >> >To: 'Frank Swarbrick' <[email protected]>; >> "[email protected]" <[email protected]> >> >Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2012 6:00 AM >> >Subject: RE: DS 0H >> > >> >> -----Original Message----- >> >> From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List >> >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of >> Frank Swarbrick >> >> Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2012 6:29 PM >> >> To: [email protected] >> >> Subject: Re: DS 0H >> >> >> >> I though of doing that very thing. Do you find it objectionable? >> >> >> > >> >Why would I? It just seems "funny" to me. But, if you were >> to see some of my code, you'd think that I'm a bit "funny". >> > >> >-- >> >John McKown >> >Systems Engineer IV >> >IT >> > >> >Administrative Services Group >> > >> >HealthMarkets® >> > >> >9151 Boulevard 26 . N. Richland Hills . TX 76010 >> >(817) 255-3225 phone . >> >[email protected] . www.HealthMarkets.com >> > >> >Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain >> confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the >> intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail >> and destroy all copies of the original message. >> HealthMarkets® is the brand name for products underwritten >> and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, >> Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company®, Mid-West >> National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA >> Life and Health Insurance Company.SM >> > >> > >> > >> > >> >> > > >
