On Mon, 26 Aug 2024 14:19:38 -0400, Phil Smith III wrote: >I hadn't ever viewed the relative instructions as completely replacing >addressability. Interesting. > >I do suspect that this is never going to be "fixed": it's a lot of work, and >it essentially ain't broken, so... > "Enhanced" might be a better word than "fixed."
Does the Assembler Services Reference document the addressability requirements of each macro? Does it say for each whether IEABRCX is an alternative? Could the source of each macro be translated to base-free form, perhaps dual-pathed depending on machine Architecture Level? AI might help here. Isn't there an implicit argument in this thread for avoiding as mush as possible the use of Assembler language? When will programmers be able to write pure 64-bit code and forget about AMODE switching? Isn't Linux there already? -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
