ADDR/BADDR

[mgrossmann]

To be compatible with the STORAGE() & BSTORAGE() BRexx/370 functions where STORAGE() mimics IBM’s Rexx370 utilizing hexadecimal addresses and BSTORAGE, the original STORAGE function in BRexx, I’d like to recommend BRexx/370 having an ADDR() & BADDR. ADDR() would function with hexadecimal addresses and BADDR() would function as the original with decimal addresses.

If:
a = “Hello” and a is located at decimal address 4096
then:
ADDR(‘a’) should return ‘1000’x
and:
BADDR(‘a’) from RxLib should return 4096

One (or 2) less data type conversions keeping one to less hair-pulling .

[Peter-Jacob]

There are some new functions (PEEKx) which do the conversion:
PEEKS(decimal-address,length)
PEEKS returns the content (typically a string) of a main-storage address in a given length. The address must be in decimal
format.
PEEKS is a shortcut of STORAGE(d2x(decimal-address),length).
PEEKA(decimal-address)
PEEKA returns an address (4 bytes) stored at a given address. The address must be in decimal format.
PEEKA is a shortcut of STORAGE(d2x(decimal-address),4).
PEEKU(decimal-address)
PEEKU returns an unsigned integer stored at the given decimal address (4 bytes). The address must be in decimal format.