I'm a retired systems programmer, spending some time in retirement working on
Don Higgins' z390 project (located at https://github.com/z390development/z390).
A recent bug report for X2C behavior was reported and a fix provided. However,
I think the fix needs one final tweak. In order to confirm that the final tweak
is correct, I would like to see the real output of an assembly of the
following program.
TX2C1 CSECT
GBLC &SRC
* Test X2C with EBCDIC '1' - X'F1'
&SRC SETC X2C('F1')
DC C'&SRC'
* Test X2C with ASCII '1' - X'31'
&SRC SETC X2C('31')
END
Alas, I do not have access to a mainframe, so I am hoping someone could
assemble it and post the output. The code produces two DC statements - one for
EBCDIC '1' and one for ASCII '1'.
It is my opinion that the first DC statement should be "F1" for the leftmost
column of the output and "DC C'1'" for the DC statement; the second DC
statement should have "31' on the left and "DC C'<unprintable character>'"
for the DC statement.
If you're interested, you can see the issue by going the the z390 github site,
clicking on "Pull requests", clicking on the "Fix X2C and index issue ..."
entry, then scrolling through the comments.
Thanks. John Ganci
