Re: QPROCT and QPRODT

"James H. H. Lampert" <jamesl-6/ELSmrcqeUu8xhjR5IN5AC/[email protected]> Fri, 30 Apr 2010 08:17:42 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.as400.mi
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Richard Thomas wrote:
> You chaps are probably aware of this already, but I never knew that you can
> use ANY Branch/indicator Keyword from an eligible Keyword Group for an
> op-code and QPRCRTPG doesn't care.

If I'm not mistaken, all of the branch/indicator keywords in any given 
group are considered synonymous.

One of the things you learn in first-semester college Assembler is that 
a machine-level "compare" is almost always nothing more than a 
"subtract" with the result discarded, and only the "status bits" (or 
equivalent) affected.

--
JHHL
(who learned PDP-11 and 8086 before learning MI)
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