I'd actually rather read LA R7,5 so I don't have to hunt for where
Token_Len is defined.
On 6/16/2021 3:24 PM, Charles Mills wrote:
And if the instruction itself were
LA R7,Token_Len
Then it would be more clear and more maintainable.
Charles
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Avoid embedding code specific details in comments.
Init loop counter in R7 to 5
A comment should not name anything explicitly stated in the instruction. 'R7'
in the comment is not merely redundant. If the loop register needs to be
changed later on, then the comment will have to be updated also. If it's not
updated, then it becomes misleading, perhaps worse than no comment at all. I
would prefer
LA R7,5 Prepare to search for delimiter
.
.
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But what is Register 7 going to be used for, and why does it need a 5?
I. E. Init loop counter in R7 to 5.
On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 11:48 AM Savor, Thomas
<[email protected]> wrote:
==> LA R7,5 Put 5 in register 7
It depends on the intended target audience. Now I and you know that a 5 is put in
Register 7, but many shops have only a couple Assembler Programmers....but many more
Cobol programmers. Telling "them" that a 5 is put in Register 7 can be helpful
to solving a problem or learning what a program does.
Way too many Cobol programmers that I run into are scared of looking at Assembler...like
just looking at it or trying to learn it is going to give you Ebola...so even very basic
instructions can be helpful...especially if Instruction says LA 7,5 then it really
helps "them".
Thanks,
Tom
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Long ago in a galaxy far away, they handed each of us a stack of manuals and
told use that we were all enrolled in a 7070 class and had to read all of the
manuals before the class started. It turned out that some of the students were
answering questions that stumped the instructor, and that if you read the
manuals you didn't need the course.
The worst are the ones that score based on the quantity of comments instead of
their quality. That guaranties cluttered and unhelpful comments. People will
behave in such a fashion as to optimize how their organization ranks them; if
teir grades or performance reviews depend on doing something sub-optimal, then
that's what they'll do. Measure the things that actually matter.
I generally frown on marking students down on stylistic issues like
labels on separate lines, but I will mark down for
LA R7,5 Put 5 in register 7
Don't tell me what LA does, tell me why you're putting that value in that
register. If there is nothing useful to say in the comment, then omit it.
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Crawford, Robert C. wrote, in part:
Oh, and I used to this:
LOOP MVC HERE,THERE
And now do this:
LOOP DS 0H
MVC HERE,THERE
Yes, I was taught that early. Then I took a Commodore SuperPet
assembler class (after writing 370 assembler for several years). That
assembler had no
DS 0H
but it did have
EQU *
So I used that-and was marked down for it. At that point, I stopped taking the
class seriously.
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