A similar one: 
How to determine a leap year:
Q1:Is year a multiple of 4?
If yes: Q2: is year a multiple of 100?
If yes: Q3: is year a multiple of 400?
If yes: it is a leapyear.
(skipping the 'If No' branches).

Q2 and Q3 will start making sense for the first time in the history of
computer programming in the year 2100. Until then Q1 would have been
sufficient.
How much power has been put into executing instructions to answer Q2 and
Q3? 
If I only had a Euro for each program that has this code and will not
live until 2100...

Kees.

-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of Gerhard Postpischil
Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2014 15:08
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Storage Obtain .....

On 2/12/2014 8:50 AM, Jim Thomas wrote:

>>           XR    R14,R14
>>           XR    R15,R15
>>           L     R1,=AL4(WORKAREA)
>>           MVCL  R0,R14

Minor quibble - when the from length is zero, the from register is never
referenced nor inspected, so the XR R14,R14 is extraneous. (If I had a
dollar for every time I've seen this, I could retire <g>).

Gerhard Postpischil
Bradford, Vermont

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