On Mon, 23 Nov 2020 20:11:45 -0500 Melvyn Maltz <[email protected]> wrote:
:>I have to thank my esteemed colleague Don Higgins for enabling this post :>IILF R3,MYLABEL ... :>MYLABEL DC 'HELLO' :>This is interesting on a number of levels, yes, the immediate value is relocatable :>I guess this is a 'good thing' for 32-bit immediate instructions...hmmm What was the "immediate" value assembled? Was it in the RLD? The immediate field should be a value, not a relocatable address (as least as I would understand it). :>My concern is though, are these instructions modal ? As it changes explicit bytes, how would modality be relevant? :>I haven't tested all variants, but in 31-bit mode is the top bit on ? :>If so, LGFI would propagate it...if so it doesn't seem like a good thing Why would the mode be relevant? LGFI sign extends in all addressing modes. :>Not a lot about this in the PoP...nada Don't understand why the assembler accepted the instruction. -- Binyamin Dissen <[email protected]> http://www.dissensoftware.com Director, Dissen Software, Bar & Grill - Israel Should you use the mailblocks package and expect a response from me, you should preauthorize the dissensoftware.com domain. I very rarely bother responding to challenge/response systems, especially those from irresponsible companies.
