: MVC TARGET(0),SOURCE
: EX Rx,*-6
: Requires a code base register.
Well, ish:
LARL Ry,*+6
MVC TARGET(0),SOURCE
EX Rx,0(,Ry)
This (MVC) still requires a base register.
or:
BRAS Ry,*+10
MVC
It seems to me you're making it harder than it is. Think we referred to
base as the code base for branch instructions and for the target of ex. If
you don't try baseless code you will have the literals often on the same
base as the instructions. And maybe for the target of ex and one of the
I am not sure what purpose is served by obfuscating an ancient piece
of terminology that, for most of its life was neither contentious nor
really ambiguous.
Terms do, of course, acquire new meanings that cannot be ignored, and
in the future I shall call what I have called a base register since
I am not sure what purpose is served by obfuscating an ancient piece
of terminology that, for most of its life was neither contentious nor
really ambiguous.
My apologies. I was not intending to obfuscate but rather to clarify. It
seems I was not successful.
I posted a couple of code
