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- <h4 class="subsection">9.14.5 ESA/390 Assembler Directives</h4>
- <p><code>as</code> for the ESA/390 supports all of the standard ELF/SVR4
- assembler directives that are documented in the main part of this
- documentation. Several additional directives are supported in order
- to implement the ESA/390 addressing model. The most important of these
- are <code>.using</code> and <code>.ltorg</code>
- </p>
- <a name="index-ESA_002f390_002donly-directives"></a>
- <p>These are the additional directives in <code>as</code> for the ESA/390:
- </p>
- <dl compact="compact">
- <dt><code>.dc</code></dt>
- <dd><p>A small subset of the usual DC directive is supported.
- </p>
- </dd>
- <dt><code>.drop <var>regno</var></code></dt>
- <dd><p>Stop using <var>regno</var> as the base register. The <var>regno</var> must
- have been previously declared with a <code>.using</code> directive in the
- same section as the current section.
- </p>
- </dd>
- <dt><code>.ebcdic <var>string</var></code></dt>
- <dd><p>Emit the EBCDIC equivalent of the indicated string. The emitted string
- will be null terminated. Note that the directives <code>.string</code> etc. emit
- ascii strings by default.
- </p>
- </dd>
- <dt><code>EQU</code></dt>
- <dd><p>The standard HLASM-style EQU directive is not supported; however, the
- standard <code>as</code> directive .equ can be used to the same effect.
- </p>
- </dd>
- <dt><code>.ltorg</code></dt>
- <dd><p>Dump the literal pool accumulated so far; begin a new literal pool.
- The literal pool will be written in the current section; in order to
- generate correct assembly, a <code>.using</code> must have been previously
- specified in the same section.
- </p>
- </dd>
- <dt><code>.using <var>expr</var>,<var>regno</var></code></dt>
- <dd><p>Use <var>regno</var> as the base register for all subsequent RX, RS, and SS form
- instructions. The <var>expr</var> will be evaluated to obtain the base address;
- usually, <var>expr</var> will merely be ‘<samp>*</samp>’.
- </p>
- <p>This assembler allows two <code>.using</code> directives to be simultaneously
- outstanding, one in the <code>.text</code> section, and one in another section
- (typically, the <code>.data</code> section). This feature allows
- dynamically loaded objects to be implemented in a relatively
- straightforward way. A <code>.using</code> directive must always be specified
- in the <code>.text</code> section; this will specify the base register that
- will be used for branches in the <code>.text</code> section. A second
- <code>.using</code> may be specified in another section; this will specify
- the base register that is used for non-label address literals.
- When a second <code>.using</code> is specified, then the subsequent
- <code>.ltorg</code> must be put in the same section; otherwise an error will
- result.
- </p>
- <p>Thus, for example, the following code uses <code>r3</code> to address branch
- targets and <code>r4</code> to address the literal pool, which has been written
- to the <code>.data</code> section. The is, the constants <code>=A(some_routine)</code>,
- <code>=H'42'</code> and <code>=E'3.1416'</code> will all appear in the <code>.data</code>
- section.
- </p>
- <div class="example">
- <pre class="example">.data
- .using LITPOOL,r4
- .text
- BASR r3,0
- .using *,r3
- B START
- .long LITPOOL
- START:
- L r4,4(,r3)
- L r15,=A(some_routine)
- LTR r15,r15
- BNE LABEL
- AH r0,=H'42'
- LABEL:
- ME r6,=E'3.1416'
- .data
- LITPOOL:
- .ltorg
- </pre></div>
- <p>Note that this dual-<code>.using</code> directive semantics extends
- and is not compatible with HLASM semantics. Note that this assembler
- directive does not support the full range of HLASM semantics.
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