On Aug 21, 2010, at 12:04, John P. Baker wrote: > When using the LARL instruction to reference a literal (i.e., =X'..'), I > receive an ASMA058E error message due to the literal not being property > aligned (on a halfword boundary). > > It would seem to me that when a relative instruction references a literal, > the assembler should force an otherwise unaligned literal to be aligned in > order to meet the requirements of the relative instruction. > Wishful thinking.
> Has anyone else run into this problem? > Probably. > Is there any known method by which to force an otherwise unaligned literal > to be aligned. > Would "=Y(X'...')" work for you? (Would it work at all?) -- gil
