No, but perhaps LGFI, avoiding the literal, would be better.

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Subject: Re: Inexplicable 0C4!

should this load

  L       R3,=X'7FFFFFFF'    string maximum length

be a load address?

  LA      R3,=X'7FFFFFFF'


On 4/27/2023 8:52 AM, Binyamin Dissen wrote:
> Which flavor of 0C4?
>
> If PIC-10/11, the address is reported.
>
> On Thu, 27 Apr 2023 19:58:23 +0700 Robin Atwood <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> :>I have had two of these during the course of two months, so it's getting
> :>serious!
> :>
> :>The abend happens in my implementation of a C strupr() function when the TRE
> :>instruction is executed:
> :>
> :>
> :>
> :>         L       R3,=X'7FFFFFFF'    string maximum length
> :>
> :>         XR    R0,R0              zero terminator byte
> :>
> :>         LA     R1,UPRX            translate table
> :>
> :>TST  TRE   R2,R1              fold string
> :>
> :>         BC     1,TST            resume translation
> :>
> :>
> :>
> :>           R0              R1             R2              R3
> :>PSW
> :>
> :>00000000 0009C5EC 1AA748F8 7FFFFFFF  078D04008009BD14
> :>
> :>
> :>
> :>The memory pointed to by R1 and R2 is addressable and in Sp0, key 8, so bog
> :>standard. I know R3
> :>
> :>looks dodgy, but that is because the string to be upper-cased must be zero
> :>byte terminated.
> :>
> :>R2 points at X'D4C6C9E3E2E3404000', so the format is correct. Given all
> :>this, why has the instruction caused an
> :>
> :>abend? The code lives in a server that is running all day, every day. I
> :>wondered if the target data had been
> :>
> :>released by another task, but VSMDATA showed a DQE for the data's page and
> :>no FQE for the data itself,
> :>
> :>so the data should still be available (as I understand it). Notice R3 hasn't
> :>changed, so the abend happened
> :>
> :>on the very first byte.
> :>
> :>
> :>
> :>Any suggestions gratefully received!
> :>
> :>Robin
> :>
> :>
> :>
> :>
> :>
> :>
> :>
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