On 5 March 2017 at 13:03, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> wrote:
> And 64-bit expressions. It's difficult to fully exploit a 64-bit > architecture using a 32-bit language. Do you think 64-bit expressions are really what's needed, or should it be infinite-precision expressions with the ability to truncate/round/etc. results explicitly (and implicitly based on operands)? I don't know the HLASM internals (thanks to OCO after ASMH), but I imagine implementing infinite precision wouldn't be a huge amount more work than hardcoding 64-bit. And certainly 128-bit is coming from behind. In passing, I'm a little surprised not to have heard from either of the two commerical vendors of HLASM compatible cross-assemblers. Tony H.
