Re: Machine-Level Assembly Language

Brian wrote:

> I've heard of a level of assembly language called Machine-Level
> Assembly Language.  What is Machine-Level Assembly Language?

Well, since the current S/3x0 assembler is called High Level
Assembler, it could be that machine level assembler is the
non-high level version.

Even so, there are many different ways to use the assembler.
One can code instructions with absolute constants or symbolic
addresses.  Code such as:

    B  12(15)
    DC X'6',CL7'MYNAME'
    STM 14,12,12(13)

used to be somewhat common, where others would use a macro or
a USING statement for R15 and use a symbolic name for the branch
destination.

The more symbolic assembler features are used the less
machine-language like the resulting code.

-- glen