On 12/30/24 12:46, Jonathan Scott wrote:
. Note however that language statements include "machine instructions", "assembler instructions" and "macro instructions", so not every statement is considered an "assembler instruction": https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/hla-and-tf/1.6?topic=introduction-assembler-language .
I prefer to think of "machine instructions" as a proper subset of "assembler instructions".
If one codes DC x'[opcode]',S([address]) is that a machine instruction or an assembler instruction? I'd call it an assembler instruction which s assembles to a machine instruction. -- gil
