I confess to some dissatisfaction with both the tone and the substance of Mr Day's OP.
He was seeking to use a facility about which he clearly knew nothing in detail while|whilst complaining that its syntax was not identical to that of its [very approximate] AMODE(31) analogue. Moreover, the prolog[ue] is in the macro; and my advice that it read it was thus straightforward. Moreover again, this advice is not novel. Several IBM contributors here and on the assembler list have noted that the 'prologs' should be consulted for detailed information of this kind. I should have been prepared to walk him through the use of IARCP64 if he had first made even the minimal appropriate effort to understand it. Things are bigger above the bar; he clearly had no grasp of this notion; and without it I judged that he was not likely to make much progress. These things said, I agree with Shane that those of us who have used and know something about the above-the-bar facilities that IBM is making available have an obligation to be helpful to colleagues who have less experience with them. Excluding Shane's post from this stricture explicitly, I must also confess that I have little patience with a class of other posts that seem to me to be insular, suspiciously unanimous, risk-averse, and mediocre. I shall try to do better. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
