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From: terry@uts.amdahl.com (Lewis T. Flynn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.asm370
Subject: Re: IBM 370 Assembly Language - Parsers
Message-ID: <6bbg02Yh43ks01@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
Date: 28 Jul 89 01:39:04 GMT
References: <310@darkstar.ucsc.edu> <6100006@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: terry@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Lewis T. Flynn)
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA
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In article <6100006@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> phil@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
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>If someone is into writing or working on this sort of stuff, then I'd like
>to see a more versatile form of 370 assembler for 370 itself (not a cross
>assembler).  One feature I'd like to see is the ability to define structured
>data with longer names.  Macros and object definitions could define names
>and fields more easily this way.  Limit on symbols should be at least 32
>characters.  Also, make sure it can deal with lower case.

You have something against Assembler H? It certainly has long symbol
names along with several other nice additions (multiple location
counters made structured macros a lot easier). Mixed case would be a
nice extra though (as I remember, it doesn't mind mixed comments but
barfs at lower case in the actual instruction).

Terry

No, I'm not speaking for the company.