How to declare & access array in assembler?

afroz alam · New User Joined: 02 Jul 2007 Posts: 13 Location: India

Hi all...

Suppose i have declared a array variable in assembler like

aaa dc F'111,222,333,444,555,666'

now i want to access it.....can any one plz tell me what are instructions requred to access it by using BCT instruction...?

afroz

afroz alam · New User Joined: 02 Jul 2007 Posts: 13 Location: India

Can anyon plz send the reply its urgent?

afroz

William Thompson · Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 3:36 pm

Learning assembler on an urgent basis is going to be difficult...
Try the PoP:
BRANCH ON COUNT (BCT, BCTR)

dick scherrer · Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 12:32 am

Hello,

Hopefully, you realize that BCT does not reference the array. . . BCT is a way to control the iterations thru the loop.

More often (in code i've written or supported), the BCT is not used. After incrementing the address in the array, it is usually checked to see if the end of the array has been reached. BCT means that you have to have to count entries each time there are adds or deletes to the table. If you use the end-of-table address (next byte after the table), the code controlling the loop does not need to be changed. I was once asked to look into a program problem that was caused by entries being modified in a similar array, but the count was not properly changed. It had been running wrong for a long time before the error was discovered. . .