Edward, I don't see it as being a major issue.
A little padding is not going to hurt anyone. Memory is cheap. Programmer time is expensive. John P. Baker -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Edward Jaffe Sent: Sunday, August 22, 2010 2:52 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: LARL vs. Literal Alignment It does seem like it could be useful if literals inherited the worst-case alignment requirements imposed by the instruction operand(s) that reference them. But, doing so could introduce some new issues. Literals are currently sorted by length. Aligning short literals on a halfword, fullword, doubleword or quadword boundary might require the assembler to insert a lot of "filler" bytes in the literal pool. Would that be acceptable? -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software International, Inc 831 Parkview Drive North El Segundo, CA 90245 310-338-0400 x318 [email protected] http://www.phoenixsoftware.com/
