Wow. Truly impressive.

Mike Shaw
MVS/QuickRef Support Group
Chicago-Soft, Ltd.

On Fri, Mar 29, 2024, 7:48 PM Ngan, Robert (DXC Luxoft) <[email protected]>
wrote:

> When I first saw "Complex immediate fields", I thought of this code one of
> our emulation macros used to generate:
>
>           CGIJL R01,132-(L'BKwa_Module+1+L'BK_LPAOS+1),BK250
> +         CGHI  R01,(1-((((132-(L'BKwa_Module+1+L'BK_LPAOS+1))-((132-(L'X
> +               BKwa_Module+1+L'BK_LPAOS+1))/256)*256)+256-((((132-(L'BKX
> +               wa_Module+1+L'BK_LPAOS+1))-((132-(L'BKwa_Module+1+L'BK_LX
> +               PAOS+1))/256)*256)+256)/256)*256)/128))*(((132-(L'BKwa_MX
> +               odule+1+L'BK_LPAOS+1))-((132-(L'BKwa_Module+1+L'BK_LPAOSX
> +               +1))/256)*256)+256-((((132-(L'BKwa_Module+1+L'BK_LPAOS+1X
> +               ))-((132-(L'BKwa_Module+1+L'BK_LPAOS+1))/256)*256)+256)/X
> +               256)*256)+((((132-(L'BKwa_Module+1+L'BK_LPAOS+1))-((132-X
> +               (L'BKwa_Module+1+L'BK_LPAOS+1))/256)*256)+256-((((132-(LX
> +               'BKwa_Module+1+L'BK_LPAOS+1))-((132-(L'BKwa_Module+1+L'BX
> +               K_LPAOS+1))/256)*256)+256)/256)*256)/128)*((((132-(L'BKwX
> +               a_Module+1+L'BK_LPAOS+1))-((132-(L'BKwa_Module+1+L'BK_LPX
> +               AOS+1))/256)*256)+256-((((132-(L'BKwa_Module+1+L'BK_LPAOX
> +               S+1))-((132-(L'BKwa_Module+1+L'BK_LPAOS+1))/256)*256)+25X
> +               6)/256)*256)-256)+((132-(L'BKwa_Module+1+L'BK_LPAOS+1))+X
> +               2147483520)*0+((132-(L'BKwa_Module+1+L'BK_LPAOS+1))-2147X
> +               483520)*0    Emulated z10 CGIJL instruction
> +         JL    BK250             ...
>
>
> Robert Ngan
> DXC Luxoft
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List <[email protected]> On
> Behalf Of Seymour J Metz
> Sent: Friday, March 29, 2024 11:57
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Complex immediate fields
>
> Back in he Assembler XF era I would code something like
>
>          LA    R0,L'DEST
>          LA    R1,DEST
>          XR    R15,R15
>          ICM   R15,8,=C' '
>          MVCL  R0,R14
>
> On current hardware there is an IILF (LFI) instruction, and I would like
> to use it instead of the XR/ICM sequence. I consider
>
>          LFI   R15,X'40000000'
>
> to be ugly, and would like to be able to either use an immediate field
> combing CL1 and XL3 pieces or to refer to an EQU defining that combination.
> Is there any way to do that in HLASM?
>
>
>
> --
> Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
> http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3
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>
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