If you met someone who said he wrote Z assembler for a living, you would not think that he exclusively dealt in USING and SPACE and LCLC. You would assume he would know how MVC worked. Where do you suppose he would have gotten that knowledge?
YES, Principles is an architecture manual. I did not say it wasn't. I stand by what I DID say. Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Seymour J Metz Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2023 11:12 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Variable symbol without leading & 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.
