This whole discussion seems to miss the reason for using a literal(i.e. to
group together constants in order of their storage alignment requirements).
This code will do what he wants with any alignment error...
LARL 3,LTORG
USING 3,LTORG
LA 3,=x'23'
DROP 3
...
...
LTORG LTORG ,I have found that by assigning a register to the literal pool via LARL at the beginning of a module, I took a program that had 5 base registers and now only has one LTORG pointer register.
