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

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In article <lunkk5$aht$3 at dont-email.me>, David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes:
>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. 
>> 
>
>:-)
>
>AS800> sear [dasv2.source]*.mar acbl
>%SEARCH-I-NOMATCHES, no strings matched
>
>:-)
>
>Back to Solitare ....
>
>:-)

You might want to do a search for ACBB and ACBW too. ;)
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