On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 06:43:02 -0800, glen herrmannsfeldt
<gah@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>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.
Then there are assemblers for the microcode ****tions of various
computers and other devices.
>
>-- glen
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