On 2020-10-23, at 16:32:30, Charles Mills wrote:
>
> Can you code an address expression with a literal? Is MVCIN TARGET,='Foo'+2
> (or 2+='Foo', or some equivalent) valid? If so, you could embed your logic in
> an executable SETEYE macro that would take SETEYE TARGET,'EYECATCH' and
> generate MVCIN TARGET,='HCTACEYE'+7
>
I believe it must be:
MVCIN TARGET,=C'Foo'+2
What's dismaying is that Assembler prohibits for no good reason:
DC S(=C'Foo'+2)
... with equivalent base-displacement resolution.
> You could certainly do it generating the constant in-line, but that is a
> cache no-no. Of course, if it only executes once per run, who cares?
>
Agreed.
-- gil
