Ref: Your note of Mon, 15 Nov 2021 10:28:38 -0500
> AIF (T'' NE 'N').LOPORTOK
The quote after shouldn't be there; it causes a syntax
error when parsing.
Jonathan Scott, HLASM
IBM Hursley, UK
There are a lot of things that can be done in DCF/BM/BM BUILD that cannot be
done in CSS.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3
From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List [ASSEMBLER-LIST@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] on behalf
of Ian Worthington
I have a macro that works right when the the following code is actually
'executed':
SETC ''
AIF ('' EQ '0').LOPORTOK
AIF (T'' NE 'N').LOPORTOK
SETC '=AL2()'
.LOPORTOK ANOP
But, when that code section is bypassed using:
AIF ('' EQ 'DSECT').ACT_DSECT
because
Have you considered running a zPDT system, or getting a cloud system just for
that? That's got to be cheaper than sysplex licensing, surely?
> IBM has a free BookMaster to HTML converter, which in theory could be used to
>convert our system BookMaster documentation to HTML, but in practice it
I don't know of any compiler that generates deliberately poor code. I know of
lots of compilers that inadvertently generate poor code.
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Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3
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Yes, but a compiler is not a program to solve the halting problem: it's primary
purpose is to generate object code that performs the algorithm described by the
source code. Even if the compiler can detect whether certain programs
terminate, it still must also generate correct code. If it
Maybe it’s the extra apostrophe on the $T attribute comparison?
Keven
> On Nov 15, 2021, at 09:28, Tony Thigpen wrote:
>
> I have a macro that works right when the the following code is actually
> 'executed':
>
> SETC ''
> AIF ('' EQ '0').LOPORTOK
> AIF (T'' NE
I loved bookmaster back in the day (though the script underpinnings, not so
much), never really found an adequate tool to replace it. Tried lyx for a bit
and was finally persuaded to use latex, but it's still not as productive as bm
was.
Anyone know what IBM uses these days?
Best wishes,
Ian
On Nov 15, 2021, at 08:38:32, Ian Worthington wrote:
>
> I loved bookmaster back in the day (though the script underpinnings, not so
> much), never really found an adequate tool to replace it. Tried lyx for a
> bit and was finally persuaded to use latex, but it's still not as productive
> as
Thanks, Paul.
XSL-FO, or something very similar, then, by the look of it?
I had a brief liaison with the XML-based tDocBook some years ago which
initially looked promising and then proved to be more effort than I really
wanted in a bookie replacement.
Best wishes,
Ian ...
On Monday,
Well, the Script plumbing allowed you to write a document that you could format
differently for different contexts and audiences. I found it a great time saver.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3
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I miss BookMaster too, because all of my system documentation is written in it,
and we can't format documentation updates anymore. (The problem is that the
sysplex licensing for SCRIPT/VS is prohibitively expensive. No SCRIPT means no
BookMaster.)
I also have a system that creates both printed
On 15/11/2021 17:38, Seymour J Metz wrote:
A non-terminating program can do useful work as it is running, and
replacing it with a single instruction loop would not be a correct
compilation.
A non-terminating and non-interacting program is what
the Halting Problem aims to detect.
--
Thanks.
It's strange that it let me get by with it under some cases, but I am
using an old assembler under VM:
(PTF UK31916) Page1
HLASM R5.0 2021/11/15 10.38
(I don't have any control over the assembler level at the site.)
Tony Thigpen
Jonathan Scott wrote on 11/15/21 10:29 AM:
A non-terminating program can do useful work as it is running, and replacing it
with a single instruction loop would not be a correct compilation.
A programmer could choose a lower level of optimization for reasons other than
compile time, e.g., for debugging.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
No need for a resource link id - Thanks to Jim Elliot (retired IBMer) most PoOP
manuals can be retrieved by starting here:
https://jlelliotton.blogspot.com/p/cmos-processor-table.html
HTH
Peter
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List On Behalf
Of Laddie Hanus
Sent:
How does one get a resource link id? I contracting at a larger software house
(not an employee, try to get a full time position in your early 60’s). I’m
there because I have done assembler for 40 years. Guess I’ll have to stay at
the z14 level for a while
Laddie Hanus
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From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List [ASSEMBLER-LIST@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] on behalf of Phil Smith III
[li...@akphs.com]
Sent: Saturday, November 13, 2021 11:10 AM
Subject: Re: Curious compiler optimization
Unoptimised code typically has redundant instructions.
For example, a store instruction to
Back when IBM used BookMaster and BookManager BUILD (MVS or VM), it was trivial
to write a manual that could be printed for different envirenments with message
ids, etc., automatically tailored for the selected environment. I wish that
they hadn't switched to WYSIAYG.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.)
Ref: Your note of Sun, 14 Nov 2021 16:02:43 -0700
gil writes:
> Even less sensible is that SuperC comes with either ISPF or HLASM TK
> with separate manuals. The M differ largely in messages prefixes
> and degree of obsolescence. When I suggested in these lists that
> SuperC be made a single
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