Ooops. Missed that you were using the CL* version. No such thing as negative numbers in logical land.
sas On Wed, Dec 7, 2022 at 12:00 PM Ed Jaffe <edja...@phoenixsoftware.com> wrote: > On 12/7/2022 8:20 AM, Seymour J Metz wrote: > > When you code an immediate operand, it has semantics beyond the > generated code. An operand of -1 is signed and not equivalent to X'FFFF', > even though they have the same value. The instruction is compare logical > half half storage immediate, thus the assembler expects the immediate > operand to be unsigned. I'd consider the message to be appropriate. > > > > Maybe define a symbol with an appropriate and use it in the CLHHSI, e.g., > > > > HWMINUS1ASUNSIGNED EQU X'FFFF' > > > Yes, an EQUate should work. Perhaps something like UHNeg1 which is not > syntactically longer than =H'-1' used to be. > > > -- > Phoenix Software International > Edward E. Jaffe > 831 Parkview Drive North > El Segundo, CA 90245 > https://www.phoenixsoftware.com/ > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This e-mail message, including any attachments, appended messages and the > information contained therein, is for the sole use of the intended > recipient(s). If you are not an intended recipient or have otherwise > received this email message in error, any use, dissemination, distribution, > review, storage or copying of this e-mail message and the information > contained therein is strictly prohibited. If you are not an intended > recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies > of this email message and do not otherwise utilize or retain this email > message or any or all of the information contained therein. Although this > email message and any attachments or appended messages are believed to be > free of any virus or other defect that might affect any computer system > into > which it is received and opened, it is the responsibility of the recipient > to ensure that it is virus free and no responsibility is accepted by the > sender for any loss or damage arising in any way from its opening or use. >
