Bernd, The problem I am seeking to address is limited to instructions making use of relative addressing that make reference to a literal whose representation consists of an odd number of bytes.
John P. Baker -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bernd Oppolzer Sent: Monday, August 23, 2010 6:05 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Literal Alignment 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
