No, PoOps is an architecture manual. It explains instruction formats and semantics; it does not explain how to symbolically encode them, much less explaining all of the pseud-ops.
________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List <[email protected]> on behalf of Charles Mills <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2023 2:03 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Variable symbol without leading & The "other manual" for the Assembler is Principles of Operation. If you want to know how COBOL MOVE works, you look at the COBOL Language Reference. But if you want to know how MVC works, you don't look at an assembler manual, you look at Principles. Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Abe Kornelis Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2023 10:38 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Variable symbol without leading & Jon, I've heard others make that remark before: HLASM is actually two languages. I find the distinction rather arbitrary - both aspects of HLASM are intimately interconnected. As Mr. Metz correctly remarked, there is only a single Language Reference Manual for HLASM.
