Re: new type of CA for ascii strings

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From: Paul Gilmartin
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 18:22

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In a recent note, "John R. Ehrman (408-463-3543 T/543-)" said:

> Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 10:17:15 -0700
>
> Character self-defining terms are complex. When the assemblers
> assumed only code page 037 for input, C'$' meant X'5B'. But we
> now have dozens of EBCDIC code pages containing the $ character,
> C'$' can have values X'5B' (the HLASM default), X'67', and X'4A'
> just among the set of code pages HLASM supports for Unicode
> translation.
>
> Many EBCDIC code pages are now used to prepare input for HLASM.
> A statement with the term C'$' could contain any of the code
> points just mentioned; each has a different ASCII translation.
>
Now, I'm puzzled.  Does this mean that I say:

         L     R15,=V(IND$FILE)
         BALR  R14,R15

I'm likely to get a call to various entry points depending
on the code page in effect for input?

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