Re: How to enter tiny Binary Floating-Point value

2023-08-02 Thread Ze'ev Atlas
If you give themthe tool, the will find a use. For completeness, and for those who really push th limits, how hard is to create that data type?ZA Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android On Wed, Aug 2, 2023 at 11:52 AM, Jonathan Scott wrote: Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz writes: > That still leave the

Re: How to enter tiny Binary Floating-Point value

2023-08-02 Thread Jonathan Scott
Ref: Your note of Wed, 2 Aug 2023 16:55:30 + > I believe Jonathan was referring to “NNP-Data-Type-1 Format”, not > the old “Network News Transfer Protocol”. Too many acronyms . . . 😊 > > Peter Should have been NNPA. I'm currently off sick and thought I had recovered enough to

Re: How to enter tiny Binary Floating-Point value

2023-08-02 Thread Farley, Peter
I believe Jonathan was referring to “NNP-Data-Type-1 Format”, not the old “Network News Transfer Protocol”. Too many acronyms . . .  Peter From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Wednesday, August 2, 2023 12:14 PM To: ASSEMBLER-LIST@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject:

Re: How to enter tiny Binary Floating-Point value

2023-08-02 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On 8/2/23 09:52:47, Jonathan Scott wrote: Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz writes: That still leave the question of HLASM syntax for DC. I would hope that it's been extended to handle tiny floating point. This has not been done so far, as the architects said it should not be needed, as it was not for

Re: How to enter tiny Binary Floating-Point value

2023-08-02 Thread Jonathan Scott
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz writes: > That still leave the question of HLASM syntax for DC. I would > hope that it's been extended to handle tiny floating point. This has not been done so far, as the architects said it should not be needed, as it was not for general programming purposes. When the

Re: Macros: sublists question

2023-08-02 Thread Steve Smith
Just because a positional sublist parameter works for one (or two) thing doesn't mean you're limited to using only positional sublist parameters. Maybe add a keyword TYPE=EQ, or whatever makes sense? Much more typically, the blinders are on the other side, and people forget that a positional

Re: Macros: sublists question

2023-08-02 Thread Seymour J Metz
Maybe. Have you tried a solution using AINSERT? Or would that get too messy? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List [ASSEMBLER-LIST@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] on behalf of Rene BRANDT

Re: Macros: sublists question

2023-08-02 Thread Rene BRANDT
Hi David, I don't understand your need of the = sign, and a question comes to me : why not using a 3rd parameter ? René Le mardi 1 août 2023 à 23:12:07 UTC+2, David Eisenberg a écrit : Thank you very much, everyone, for these rapid and helpful replies! I hear you all loud and