On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 5:24 PM Seymour J Metz <[email protected]> wrote:
> IMHO it is cleaner and more readable to do
>
> L R15,=V(ENTRY)
>
> The other code is not only a Rube Goldberg, but it has a 50/50 chance of
> blowing up; V(ENTRY) has full word alignment.
>
{sigh} I guess I am loosing my ability to communicate. The example code was
just my (poor) attempt to show what I was wanting to accomplish, not code
that I would actually use. And yes, I should have use VL4(...) .
> Of course, on current processors there are better options.
>
Yes, that is what I was trying to elicit from the community: LARL does what
I want in this case. Along with perhaps BRAS and BRASL in some cases.
>
> BTW, is there some way to get the offset of an external dummy ("pseudo
> register") into the displacement without resorting to an ORG?
>
> --
> Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
> http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3
>
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