We continue to investigate various load operations that are available (of which there are many). Load Byte (LB) is easy one to pick up if you haven’t used it in the past. Here is the write up.
Review an Instruction: LB (IBM Assembler)
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Love the (L)oad (B)yte [LB] instruction! Like “(L)oad (H)alfword” [LH] except it loads just one byte (sign + 7 bit value) instead of two (sign + 15 bit value).
For this one (LB), it might be good to also state the range of values which can be loaded, from -128 (X’80’) through +127 (X’7F’)
Good suggestion, David, I’ll add it.