Is *discontinuity in assembler design* a nice way of saying, it's a bad design? I would think a length of 1 and 0 are different, and MVC should perform accordingly, e.g. if length=0, do nothing.
Paul Gilmartin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> 11/07/2006 10:02 AM Please respond to IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> To [email protected] cc Subject Re: Assembler question In a recent note, Staller, Allan said: > Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2006 08:47:19 -0600 > > <snip> > > flagged. > > > > MVI MOZ,C'Z' > > MVC MOZ+1(255),MOZ > </snip> > > Should't that be: > > MVI MOZ,C'Z' > MVC MOZ+1(L'MOZ-1),MOZ > And, by a discontinuity in assembler design, if L'MOZ=1, this clobbers one byte after MOZ rather than generating an assembler error as I feel it should. -- gil -- StorageTek INFORMATION made POWERFUL ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
