On 2014-01-14 18:38, John Ehrman wrote: > Paul Gilmartin noted: > "After a lot of experimenting and a little RTFM, I learn that the > TRANSLATE option affects the generation of C'...'-type constants. > The Reference explicitly states that TRANSLATE does not affect > generation of CA'...'-type constants, nor do I see a corresponding > option to control the CA'...' mapping." > > You can control the CA'...' mapping by implementing your own set of > translation tables for use with the TRANSLATE option. > I thought, by experiment, that defining my own very distinctive TRANSLATE table, that it appeared to affect C'...' constants, but not CA'...' constants. And that agrees with what I read in the Language Reference.
But I'm looking at ASMALTAS (DDLIST found it for me in PLPA), and it appears to be an EBCDIC->ASCII table. I'm very confused. I'll experiment further. > When that was implemented, we didn't see a need to enter what others have > called "the swamp" of multiple source and target code pages. > Tread gently; wear hip boots. Tachyon, being a cross-assembler, must wade into it. Thanks, gil
