Re: Long displacement dependent USINGs now supported

2021-11-17 Thread Steve Smith
That's great! Explaining things like "ST USING STATUS_TABLE+4000,STATUS_DESC+4000 " makes people suspect me of witchcraft. sas

Long displacement dependent USINGs now supported

2021-11-17 Thread Jonathan Scott
We have just shipped the PTFs for APAR PH42050 which allows a dependent USING instruction to be resolved using a 20-bit signed displacement provided that the specified OPTABLE is one which supports instructions with that capability. It was apparently intended that this support should have been

Re: Long displacement dependent USINGs now supported

2021-11-17 Thread Jonathan Scott
gil writes: >Also, decades ago, I found that (something like): >PSWMAP DSECT > ... > USING PSWMAP-SVCOPSW,R0 > >quietly behaved as if I had coded: > USING PSWMAP,R0 > >Experts conceded that the behavior is indefensible except >on grounds of compatibility with existing

Re: Long displacement dependent USINGs now supported

2021-11-17 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Nov 17, 2021, at 02:36:12, Jonathan Scott wrote: > ... > When we resumed this item recently, we found that the logic to > handle the dependent USING base address and range in the Using > Map and Active Usings headings incorrectly assumed that any > dependent USING would be basing the start

Re: Long displacement dependent USINGs now supported

2021-11-17 Thread Jonathan Scott
Ref: Your note of Wed, 17 Nov 2021 09:17:36 -0700 gil writes: > Does that affect generated code, or even ASMADATA? Might > any users depend on the misbehavior? The Active Usings headings and the Using Map are just additional information in the listing (and ADATA) so any errors in the code to

Re: ASMPUT question

2021-11-17 Thread Charles Mills
I am not the least bit familiar with it but it looks pretty bleak: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/hla-and-tf/1.6?topic=tool-restrictions I think I have a Windows XP install diskette if you want to borrow it. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List

ASMPUT question

2021-11-17 Thread Mark Hammack
I just downloaded the "latest" version of ASMPUT from z/OS 2.3 and have some questions. First off, let me say this is an 'experiment' to see if it would have caught a couple of bugs I found caused by copy/paste errors. The first thing that caught my eye in reading the HLASM 1.6 documentation was