On 10/12/2017 7:36 AM, Steve Smith wrote:
FWIW, we use local proprietary SPM set, so the syntax and expansions aren't likely to be exactly like IBM's or yours.
We use IBM's. I heavily modified them and distributed those modifications to interested parties back in the day.
Eventually, IBM accepted all of my contributions (altered as necessary) and so I no longer maintain them. [My name even appears in SASMMAC2(ASMMSP). For legal reasons, IBM differentiated between NEXTWHEN (a new macro) and all of my other modifications, which were updates to existing macros. I had to sign a document giving them free and unencumbered use of NEXTWHEN, which I gladly did. Saved me the trouble of maintaining that modification.]
For the record, John Dravnieks in Perth, Australia did a great job incorporating my changes as well as implementing numerous other improvements to IBM's macro set! It went from rather "klunky," with numerous silly coding restrictions, to very usable with few coding restrictions in a fairly short time when John was around!
We do have additional modifications to ASMMSP that we use internally (such as allowing EQU symbols to be used with CASE instead of just numbers), but we've never distributed any of those additional modifications.
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