You mean BRAS/BRASL!  

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 > Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 07:33:26 -0400
> From: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: New BAL
> To: [email protected]
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> On Tue, 9 Apr 2013 11:15:41 -0700, Scott Ford wrote:
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> >Whats the new Instruction that replaces the old BAL?
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> BAS (and BASR) is like BAL (and BALR), except that
> in AMODE 24, the high byte of the return address is
> set to the ILC, CC and Program mask.
> IIRC, BAS was new with 370/XA over 30 years ago.
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> A newer replacement for BAS is BASR, Branch and save relative.
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> Tom Marchant
                                          

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