On Tue, 13 May 2014 17:47:39 -0400, Tony Harminc wrote: >On 8 May 2014 19:34, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote: >> ST doesn't accept a 3-modifier expression, that is an artifact of the XL >> C/C++ "assembler" listing format. > >This is really really annoying, and has been for years. The compiler >is now quite capable of producing correct assembler output when the >Metal option is specified, but presumably someone at IBM believes this >stuff is more readable, somehow. > >Maybe there's a requirement here. > One can argue that a couple ways:
o The correctness of the assembler output could be verified by assembling it (possibly after filtering page headers, etc.). o False assembler output discourages users' tweaking it and using it in place of making modifications to the C source (and then reporting problems in the incorrectly tweaked code). Similar applies to the pseudo "JCL" produced by the "cc" (whatever) command, some of which is a circumvention of the 100-character PARM or 256-character pathname limit. Maybe it should emit Rexx instead of JCL. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
