Yes, BC and BCR were on S/360 with the same semantics as on Z.

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Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3

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From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List [[email protected]] on behalf 
of Paul Gilmartin [[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2022 12:08 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Unexpected C code

On Apr 21, 2022, at 10:00:19, Gord Tomlin <[email protected]> 
wrote:
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> On 2022-04-21 10:46 AM, Seymour J Metz wrote:
>> Well, in the case of S/370 the compiler could emit JO or JNO after the add.
>
> Well, if only JO and JNO had existed in the days of S/370...
>
Wasn't there BC, even before the 370?

Yes, it required a base register, but weren't programmers in
that era pretty much resigned to base registers?

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gil

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