Paul G. I like your idea:
>> multiple constants within a literal. That would make it very easy for the implementer (the good people around John E) and the writers of HLASM-code would only need and extra empty constant for very few instructions- But it lacks the beauty of a solution invisable to the HLASM-coder. The "invisable" solution would generate one literal for these two (I would expect): LARL R1,=C'THIS IS A SAMPLE' LA R1,=C'THIS IS A SAMPLE' -- Martin Pi_cap_CPU - all you ever need around MWLC/SCRT/CMT in z/VSE more at http://www.picapcpu.de
