Hi David,
Could you not code it as =X’0000010002000003’ instead?
Keven
On Fri, May 4, 2018 at 6:12 PM -0500, "Charles Mills" <[email protected]> wrote:
I don't really know but this seems similar to a thread here a little while ago.
There are different parsers for different things in the assembler.
=X'0000010002000003' will work but that is probably not what you want. You
might be able to make a macro that constructed this for you.
=AD((1*X'1000000000')+(2*X'1000000')+3) might be an approach, but you may run
into 31-bit arithmetic issues.
Charles
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Sent: Friday, May 4, 2018 12:13 PM
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Subject: Literals: are terms with different length attributes permitted?
Hi everyone,
I have a question regarding the syntax of literals; I'm not sure if what I'm
trying to do is valid. Please consider this DC statement:
MYCONST DC AL3(1),AL2(2),AL3(3)
Note that the length attributes differ amongst the terms above. Is it possible
to code that entire expression as a literal? I.e., instead of coding this:
MVC 0(8,R1),MYCONST
I'm wondering if I can avoid coding the DC statement, and do something like
this instead (I know this syntax is wrong):
MVC 0(8,R1),=(AL3(1),AL2(2),AL3(3))
Any help would be greatly appreciated; thank you!
David
