On Sun, 5 Jul 2020 11:31:55 -0500 Joe Monk <joemon...@gmail.com> wrote:
:>Cobol has alignment too. You just dont see it. :>All storage is aligned. The opposite is true. Group (01/77) are aligned. Subordinate items are not aligned unless the SYNC clause is specified. :>On Sun, Jul 5, 2020 at 10:24 AM Nguyen Dt <ndt....@gmail.com> wrote: :> :>> Thank you all for your inputs, :>> :>> I am over the problem now. :>> In fact what i tried to do is to Move some fields to my output fields and :>> then write it as a report. (It is a Db2 performance report, the input are :>> from the trace buffers with the macros given by Db2 libraries) :>> :>> So my program is roughly like this :>> READ Buffer on QW... variables :>> :>> MVC OW...,QW... :>> :>> :>> OW... are the output fields i defined it exactly as in the DSECT got from :>> the macros. :>> As it is an output field, the position is important (and it is why i :>> detected a problem in the positions of my fields) :>> Its is OK now with OW... variables defined as characters CLx :>> :>> (PS: When i use NOALIGN , the program abends at execution ...) :>> :>> As i learn assembler "on the flight" , there is some important things that :>> i don' t understand , such as the alignment .... This is something we don't :>> care in cobol , rexx .... Can you tell me why assembler has the alignment :>> in words that are easy to understand and visualize in my little head ? :>> :>> Thank you again. :>> Duc :>> :>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- :>> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, :>> send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN :>> :> :>---------------------------------------------------------------------- :>For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, :>send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- Binyamin Dissen <bdis...@dissensoftware.com> http://www.dissensoftware.com Director, Dissen Software, Bar & Grill - Israel Should you use the mailblocks package and expect a response from me, you should preauthorize the dissensoftware.com domain. I very rarely bother responding to challenge/response systems, especially those from irresponsible companies. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
