Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!dptg!rutgers!njin!princeton!phoenix!pucc!EGNILGES From: EGNILGES@pucc.Princeton.EDU (Ed Nilges) Newsgroups: comp.lang.asm370 Subject: Re: IBM 370 Assembly Language - Parsers Message-ID: <9097@pucc.Princeton.EDU> Date: 28 Jul 89 13:46:55 GMT References: <310@darkstar.ucsc.edu> <6100006@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Reply-To: EGNILGES@pucc.Princeton.EDU Organization: Princeton University, NJ Lines: 24 Disclaimer: Author bears full responsibility for contents of this article In article <6100006@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, phil@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu writes: > >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. The IBM Assembler H can deal with symbols up to 63 characters in length, although it cannot deal with lower case. > >--Phil howard-- ************************************************************************ Edward Nilges "If the universe were perfect, it wouldn't exist" - Yogi Berra