Re: [MI400] MI Newbie with XLATE instruction problem

["Keith Carpenter" <CarpCon@xxxxxxx>]

Out of curiosity,  I checked what RPG does with...
C           'X':'O'   XLATEDATA      DATA

IRP...
XLATE DATA ,DATA ,.XL20001 , .XL30001 




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Winchester Terry" <terry.winchester@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "'MI Programming on the AS400 / iSeries'" <mi400@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 10:30 AM
Subject: RE: [MI400] MI Newbie with XLATE instruction problem


> 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
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