Robert Ngan wrote:

>Under "Saving the caller program's registers", the assembler services guide
states:

 

>Vector registers (VRs) 8 - 15, bytes 0 - 7, and the entirety of VRs 16 - 23
are unchanged.

 

>16-23 only! Not 16-31. Is this correct?

 

Well, "The vector facility for z/Architecture provides a set of 32 vector
registers, each having 128 bits" so I dunno what it's describing. Maybe it's
saying "Of the 32 VRs, some parts are unchanged, but other parts might be".

 

Ah yes:

A portion of the vector-register file overlaps the existing floating-point
registers.  Bits 0-63 of vector registers 0-15 co-exist with FPRs 0-15; bits
64-127 of VRs 0-15 and all of VFs 16-31 have their own unique locations in
the register file. 

 

Those quotes are from some PPTXs that someone (I forget who!) sent me.

 

...phsiii 

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