Store-Clock-Fast Facility

2025-04-10 Thread Mario Bezzi
PoP states "The store-clock-fast facility *may* be available on a model implementing z/Architecture." The "may" word forces my performance sensitive code to go through additional controls before using STCKF, which sort of defeats the purpose of the instruction. STCKF was first introduced in 2

Re: Two questions about HLASM (was RE: Object Record size)

2025-04-10 Thread Charles Mills
Consider X DC A(FOO) Where A is *not* external to the assembly ORG *-4 DCF'0' What will X contain at runtime? I have not tested, but I am going to go out on a limb and guess "the load address of the CSECT containing FOO." I will leave "why" as an exercise for the reader. Charles --

Re: Object Record size

2025-04-10 Thread Charles Mills
With regard to the first one, I don' think it will generate any ESDs unless you code EXTRN (or similar) for each of your whatevers. If you do so, then I think HLASM generates an ESD even in cases where a human could tell it was problematic coding. For example EXTRN FOO DC A(FOO) ORG

Re: Two questions about HLASM (was RE: Object Record size)

2025-04-10 Thread Peter Sylvester
On 07/04/2025 17:45, Binyamin Dissen wrote: On Mon, 7 Apr 2025 15:25:44 +0100 Jonathan Scott wrote: :>1. If you overlay a relocatable field with another relocatable field, you are giving the assembler two conflicting definitions of the same storage location. There will be more than one RLD (

Re: hlasm object format

2025-04-10 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On 4/7/25 13:50, Peter Sylvester wrote: On 07/04/2025 18:36, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On 4/7/25 10:13, Peter Sylvester wrote: ... My question was badly written. i did not want to talk about the asm END statement, but about the END record/card in the object deck. well, one can use HEWLDIA and fri

Re: MHELP usage

2025-04-10 Thread Jonathan Scott
Have you looked at the sample program in the Programmer's Guide? https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/hla-and-tf/1.6.0?topic=facility-mhelp-sample-mac ro-trace-dump Jonathan Scott -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List On Behalf Of Joseph Reichman Sent: 10 April 2025 19:36 To: ASS

MHELP usage

2025-04-10 Thread Joseph Reichman
Hi I am trying values variables in a macro Can someone give an example of MHELP usage Thanks