Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!RICE.EDU!ECULHAM%UALTAVM From: ECULHAM%UALTAVM@RICE.EDU (Earl Culham) Newsgroups: comp.lang.asm370 Subject: Re: IBM 370 Assembly Language - Parsers Message-ID: <8907290322.AB00415@rice.edu> Date: 28 Jul 89 21:02:20 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: IBM 370 Assembly Programming Discussion List Distribution: inet Organization: The Internet Lines: 25 In article <6100006@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!phil@UXC.CSO.UIUC.EDU wr > >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. > >--Phil howard-- There have been extensions made to IBM's Assembler H which address all your requests, and then some. These extensions were made independently (and likely incompatibly) at the University of Michigan and Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. I have no direct knowledge of the SLAC version, other than it is available through the SHARE Program Library Agency. The MTS version also supports a very nice set of structured programming macros. In addition, I have three structured programming macro libraries that work with the standard (ie. no extra charge) IBM Assembler. As they aren't mine, I can't forward them to you. But, if you are interested, I should be able to track down their authors so that you can request your own copy.