For this discussion it's very important to know that literals of -
for example - length 4 will be aligned on word boundary due to literal
sorting,
regardless of their type specifier and other attributes. This is what
I've tried
to explain in my earlier posts.
That is
L R1,=XL4'55000000'
will work on S/360, because the literal is aligned, although
XL4 normally does not align definitions (with DS or DC, for example).
This may be clear to most of you, but maybe not to beginners, who follow
this discussion.
Regards
Bernd
William H. Blair schrieb:
Here's an example that would (potentially) fail on System/360:
L R1,=X'55' Get X'55' into high order byte
That will work some of the time, but only if you're lucky and
the code doesn't really care what's in the low order 3 bytes.
