Tom,
I liked your solution. Truly ingenious!
It might get just a bit shorter by using ICM instead of the IC+SLL:
ICM R5,B'1000',INBYTE
-Victor-
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Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:13:09 -0800
From: Tom Simons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mainframe Assembler Coding Contest
Here's 8 instructions to translate 8 bits to 8 chars of 1's or 0's:
LA R3,8
IC R5,INBYTE
SLL R5,24
LOOP SLL R4,3
SLDL R4,1
BCT R3,LOOP
ST R4,OUTCHAR
UNPK OUTCHAR(9),OUTCHAR(5)
OUTCHAR DS CL8
DS X
INBYTE DC B'10101011'
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