RE: Executing an XORSTR in ILE?

["Morgan, Paul" <Paul.Morgan@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dennis,

There is more than one way to do that but you asked for the logical way:

http://graphics.stanford.edu/~seander/bithacks.html#SwappingValuesSubAdd

Paul Morgan

Principal Programmer Analyst
IT Supply Chain/Replenishment

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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dennis
Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2011 11:04 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Executing an XORSTR in ILE?

On a mildly relevant track: not sure how widely known this is so I'll present a challenge:  What are the three logical instructions that, when executed in order, will cause the values of A and B to be swapped, without need of a work area?
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Dennis
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"Jon Paris" <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I thought the answer given to this question was that RPG's %BITAND,
> %BITOR, %BITXOR, and %BITNOT were probably a a better approach than
> trying to use XORSTR?
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> On Oct 18, 2011, at 3:41 PM, midrange-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
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> > > I have a single XORSTR instruction that I would like to be able to
> > > call in an ILE environment.
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> Jon Paris
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