[Info-vax] Bliss was Re: Learning VMS application programming

[David Froble]

VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> In article <lunc03$6ue$2 at dont-email.me>, David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes:
>> VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
>>> In article <c726b652-f7dd-4fb3-a5a3-d07b2fd2e939 at googlegroups.com>, abrsvc <dansabrservices at yahoo.com> writes:
>>>>> If you think finding COBOL programmers is hard what do you think the
>>>>>
>>>>> availability of MACRO-11 programmers is like?  :-)
>>>>>
>>>> There are still some of us around...
>>>>
>>>> I have had people comment about writing/modifying MACRO32 on the IA64 system though.  Nothing like writing "assembler" then using a compiler.  For us old folks, that still seems odd.
>>> At least, it does work and it works quite well. 
>>>
>>> FWIW, just the other day I came across a VAX Macro instruction that did NOT
>>> behave properly on Alpha but it seems have been corrected on Itanium.  Back
>>> on a VAX to verify it, the Alpha is not behaving properly.  On Itanium, it's
>>> doing the correct thing.
>>>
>> You gonna keep us in suspense, or tell us the instruction?  I'd like to 
>> do a SEARCH on my code.
> 
> The instruction is/was the ACBL.  It was in a section of code involved in
> walking a self-relative queue.  If the addend is 0, strange things happen.
> Try something like '10$: ACBL R2,#0,R1,10$' with R1=R2 on Alpha and VAX to
> see what happens. 
> 

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AS800> sear [dasv2.source]*.mar acbl
%SEARCH-I-NOMATCHES, no strings matched

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