ChatGPT gave you the answer you asked for. You didn't ask for good or
functional. Why are you asking AI a question that would yield the same results
as a Google search?
Ask ChatGPT to convert an HLASM program (you supply) to C. My guess is that it
will say something like it has not been trained to convert HLASM to C which
would be a valid answer.
Ask ChatGPT to fix the example HLASM program.
On Thursday, June 1, 2023 at 10:39:48 AM PDT, John McKown
<[email protected]> wrote:
I asked ChatGPT for an example HLASM program. Here's what I got:
BALR R9,0 Set the base register
USING *,R9 Establish a base register
LR R3,R9 Load the base register into R3
LA R4,ARRAY Load the address of the array into R4
LA R5,SIZE Load the size of the array into R5
L R6,0(R4) Load the first element of the array into
R6
L R7,=F'0' Initialize the sum to zero
LOOP AR R7,R6 Add the current element to the sum
A R4,=F'4' Move to the next element of the array
LA R8,1(0,R4) Load the address of the next element into
R8
L R6,0(R8) Load the next element into R6
CR R4,R5 Compare the current element to the end of
the array
BNE LOOP Branch back to LOOP if not at the end of
the array
BR R14 Return to the caller
ARRAY DC F'1' Array of numbers
DC F'2'
DC F'3'
DC F'4'
DC F'5'
SIZE DC F'5' Size of the array
Of course, there are a lot of problems with this, such as no CSECT and no
END. But I was amazed it had anything at all.It's fun to play with.
