RE: how to create unsigned hexadecimal initial value

After all the work that you and Gene have done to inform me (by the way,
thanks for that), I think that I understand the design and implementation.
I happen to think that what it is doing is wrong.

I was brung up with the idea that a hex literal has no insignificant digits.
The type H literal doesn't follow that rule and I WOULD screw that up about
one half of the time.  I think I'll just stick to type X.

BTW, I also happen to think that RSLVSP should replace the contents of a
system pointer.  I have been hammered by that more than once because it is
not intuitive to me.

Richard Jackson
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From: owner-mi400@midrange.com [mailto:owner-mi400@midrange.com]On
Behalf Of Leif Svalgaard
Sent: Friday, August 25, 2000 1:59 PM
To: MI400@midrange.com
Subject: Re: how to create unsigned hexadecimal initial value


From: Richard Jackson <richardjackson@richardjackson.net>
> I concur with your conclusion.  Based on what I have seen for the
> experiments that you and Gene have done, X' looks a lot more predictable
to
> me.  It might be interesting to figure out where the H' came from and who
> uses it.  Can any bugs be traced back to it challenging nature?

several of my examples are from my "bug book". This one in particular:

DCL DD NN BIN(2);
DCL DD XX CHAR(2) DEF(NN);

CPYNV  NN, -1;
AND(S) NN,H'0003';
CVTHC MSG-TEXT(1:4), XX;
CALLI SHOW-MESSAGE, *, .SHOW-MESSAGE;    <==== shows  0300    wrong

took me three days to figure out. I had to disassemble the code and actually
look at the RISC instructions to convince myself that it was the machine and
not me being wrong. It was particular nasty because no compiler error or
warning was issued.

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