port to PDOS (especially mainframe)

[Paul Edwards]

On Saturday, April 17, 2021 at 7:52:07 AM UTC+10, jak wrote:

> Hi, 
> one thing is not clear to me, do you absolutely need to use "asma"? 
> 
> http://www.z390.org/

The link you provided is to something that runs on PC
environments.

I want to produce EBCDIC executables that run on a
S/3X0 (or z/Arch) machine (even if I personally do
that via emulation).

The only way I currently have of doing that is to assemble
and link using what comes with MVS 3.8J. But that's all
written in S/370 assembler using features that only exist
on MVS. PDOS/3X0 doesn't support all those features. It
only supports C90-compliant applications.

Meanwhile, 35,000 lines (or more) of lovingly handcrafted
Python code are going to waste. :-)

BFN. Paul.