From: "Swarbrick, Frank" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, January 22, 2016 8:08 AM
IILF is not a "problem". I was simply wondering if there was something similar where the
immediate value stored in the instruction was only a halfword instead of a fullword.
As for LAY, I'm not a particular fan of using an instruction named after
one particular function (load address) to be used for a less obvious function
(loading an "immediate" value).
In LA, the address field IS an immedate value.
Of course it's well-known that LA is used for this; but it still strikes me as
being non-obvious.
If you don't like it, write your own macro.
Or use one of the suggestions.
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