It's interesting that Clark Morris in a following post refers to floating point conversion.
It may be useful to mention that "GENERATE" in PL/X is for the purposes of introducing Assembler code where the programmer discovers that PL/X just can't do what he/she wants - as my very limited contact with PL/X seemed to imply. During a couple of months in a development lab, I needed to check what a module did. It was in PL/X of course and one example of "GENERATE" that I - think I - remember of "*** this, I need Assembler" was code to perform a floating point conversion. This was back in 1980 so maybe there have been improvements to PL/X in the meantime. Chris Mason ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, 12 November, 2006 7:28 PM Subject: Re: Best practice > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 11/11/2006 > at 09:26 AM, Clark Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > >In the case of IBM, PL/X was supposed to make Assembler obsolete for > >IBM coding or was it. > > PL/X includes GENERATE. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
