Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU!EGNILGES From: EGNILGES@PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU (Ed Nilges) Newsgroups: comp.lang.asm370 Subject: Re: IBM 370 Assembly Language - Parsers Message-ID: <8907290320.AB00415@rice.edu> Date: 28 Jul 89 13:46:55 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: IBM 370 Assembly Programming Discussion List Distribution: inet Organization: The Internet Lines: 24 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