Perhaps because IBM deemed it useless, or perhaps because instructions are limited to 48 bits.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List [ASSEMBLER-LIST@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] on behalf of Schmitt, Michael [michael.schm...@dxc.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 7, 2022 6:28 PM To: ASSEMBLER-LIST@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: MVCRL Why isn't there a Move Relative Long instruction, i.e. move with no registers, where both the source and destination are relative to the instruction address? Is this because there's no instruction format with two RI fields and a length?
