On Fri, 27 Jul 2012 16:18:03 -0700 Frank Swarbrick <[email protected]>
wrote:

:>I was going to call this "Basic ASM question", but that subject was already 
used today.  :-)
:>
:>I've been looking at the LE macros (CEEENTRY in particular) and notice that 
instead of a USING, in general they use another method to refer to a DSECT and 
the base register for it.
:>
:>Specifically, they do this:
:>         STM   14,12,CEEDSAR14-CEEDSA(13)
:>         L     1,CEEDSANAB-CEEDSA(,13)
:>
:>instead of, say, this:
:>         USING CEEDSA,13
:>         STM   14,12,CEEDSAR14
:>         L     1,CEEDSANAB
:>
:>What is the term used for the first method?  I'm trying to look it up in the 
HLASM reference, but I don't know what keywords to search on!

I would call it absolute displacement.

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