Oops.

I meant:     CLI  0(R3),X'00'



-----Original Message-----
From: Randy Schafer
Sent: Friday, August 24, 2012 1:54 PM
To: 'IBM Mainframe Assembler List'
Subject: RE: which instructions should I use?

I probably would have used:

        CLI   0(1,R3),X'00'
        JNE  ...

No literal.


-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List [mailto:[email protected]] On 
Behalf Of Frank Swarbrick
Sent: Friday, August 24, 2012 1:48 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: which instructions should I use?

Assembler newbie here; please be gentle.

Given the following:
- r7 points to the input parm list
- r2 indexes the input parm list
I want to see if the first byte of the parm I am interested in is x'00'.

         l     r3,0(r2,r7)      r3 -> current parm
I can do this:
         clc   0(1,r3),=x'00'
         jne   delimited_string
Or I can do this:
         llc   r9,0(,r3)        r9 = parm byte 0
         clijne r9,x'00',delimited_string

How do I decide which is better?
The second one uses "more modern" instructions, and 1 extra byte, but no 
literal.

Frank

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