You're correct: recent changes allow section (and various internal)
alignments up to quadword with OBJ files; stricter alignments require
the GOFF option.
John Ehrman
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Date: 4 August 2010, 11:31:24 -0500
From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List ASSEMBLE at INTERNET
Chris Craddock (CC) observed:
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For program text you're at the mercy of whatever is supported by the
binder and contents supervision. The HLASM's SECTALGN option implies
the ability to align program text on arbitrary powers of 2 boundaries
from 8 up to 4096 {n: 3...12 so that 2^n = desired alignment} so in
theory SECTALGN(16) would do the trick. However, that option is only
available for GOFF objects and in any case (so far as I know) the only
alignment options that are actually supported by the binder and z/OS
contents supervision are doubleword (8 bytes) and page (4096 bytes)
Caveat: this may have changed in the relatively recent past.
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