Dale, This code sample misses the whole point.
It uses a base register. Baseless code is intended to be exactly that. Baseless. The intent is to reserve registers for calculations and for base registers pointing to dynamic data. No base registers for code, and no base registers for static data. John P. Baker -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bohn, Dale Sent: Sunday, August 22, 2010 2:01 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: LARL vs. Literal Alignment 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.
