Re: Floating point assembler code

2011-04-07 Thread Don Higgins
All Here is another alternative for coding and testing all 3 flavors of IBM mainframe floating point including HFP, BFP, and DFP. The free open source zcobol compiler written in structured z390 portable mainframe assembler supports all the floating point formats using the latest COBOL draft stand

Re: Floating point assembler code

2011-04-06 Thread Don Poitras
I gave up TSO TEST for ASMIDF years ago. Give it try. In article you wrote: > On Tue, 5 Apr 2011 15:36:24 -0400, Tony Harminc > wrote: > > > >I too continue to use TSO TEST for certain things, and indeed it would > >be a very good thing if they would add just a few little updates: > > > >Bett

Re: Floating point assembler code

2011-04-05 Thread W. Kevin Kelley
On Tue, 5 Apr 2011 15:36:24 -0400, Tony Harminc wrote: > >I too continue to use TSO TEST for certain things, and indeed it would >be a very good thing if they would add just a few little updates: > >Better floating point support, as you suggest > >Access register support > >64-bit GPR support >

Re: Floating point assembler code

2011-04-05 Thread Tony Harminc
On 4 April 2011 21:53, W. Kevin Kelley wrote: > The floating point instructions in some ways are easier to use than the > integer > instructions because you don't have to worry about scaling and implied > decimal points and all of that. The biggest problem with floating point is > converting num

Re: Floating point assembler code

2011-04-05 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Mon, 4 Apr 2011 20:53:35 -0500 "W. Kevin Kelley" wrote: :>On Mon, 4 Apr 2011 11:09:29 -0400, O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C] :> wrote: :>>Are there any tutorials/samples for writing floating point assembler code. We :>need to work with the z/VM Performance

Re: Floating point assembler code

2011-04-04 Thread W. Kevin Kelley
On Mon, 4 Apr 2011 11:09:29 -0400, O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C] wrote: >A colleague asked that the following query be posted: > >Are there any tutorials/samples for writing floating point assembler code. We need to work with the z/VM Performance data and it is stored in

Re: Floating point assembler code

2011-04-04 Thread Sam Siegel
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 8:09 AM, O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C] wrote: > A colleague asked that the following query be posted: > > Are there any tutorials/samples for writing floating point assembler code. We > need to work with the z/VM Performance data and it is stored in

Re: Floating point assembler code

2011-04-04 Thread Steve Comstock
On 4/4/2011 9:09 AM, O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C] wrote: A colleague asked that the following query be posted: Are there any tutorials/samples for writing floating point assembler code. We need to work with the z/VM Performance data and it is stored in short floating point. Been playi

Floating point assembler code

2011-04-04 Thread O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C]
A colleague asked that the following query be posted: Are there any tutorials/samples for writing floating point assembler code. We need to work with the z/VM Performance data and it is stored in short floating point. Been playing in the Principles of Operation but have a bit of a time