RE: [MI400] MI Newbie with XLATE instruction problem

[Winchester Terry <terry.winchester@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Right at the moment...not very lucky :(

Hmmmm...maybe it's time to learn about labels and jumps ;-)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mi400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:mi400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dave McKenzie
> Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 12:41 PM
> To: 'MI Programming on the AS400 / iSeries'
> Subject: RE: [MI400] MI Newbie with XLATE instruction problem
> 
> 
> Just to interject a cautionary note.  In the MI reference at
> 
> http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/iseries/v5r1/ic2924/tstudio/tech
> _ref/mi/XLATE.htm
> 
> it says:
> 
> "If overlapped operands share all of the same bytes, the results are
> predictable when direct addressing is used. If indirect addressing is
> used (that is, based operands, parameters, strings with variable
> lengths, and arrays with variable subscripts), the results are not
> always predictable."
> 
> How lucky do you feel? :-)
> 
> --Dave
> 
> On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 08:39, Winchester Terry wrote: 
> > <grin> 
> >
> > <snip>
> > 
> > Now to figure out which chapter covers varying
> > length parameter strings...
> > 
> > Thanks again for the help Keith!
> > 
> > Terry