RE: Basing Pointers

[Tim McCarthy <TimM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jon Paris and I stated categorically that assigning an address to a
variable on the fly could not be done - not even in MI . And we're
right. Read back over the thread - modifying the address stored in a
basing pointer was not the issue in question and we indicated this could
be done in ILE RPG etc too.
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: leif@ibm.net [SMTP:leif@ibm.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 1999 5:43 PM
> To:   MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      Re: Basing Pointers
> 
> 
> Yeah, that is what I thought too. Somebody in this list categorically
> stated that it could not be done, not even in MI.
> Below is the standard way of doing I/O in MI using the SEPT.
> Note how the ADDSPP instruction modifies the basing pointer:
> 
> 
> 
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