John Gilmore asked: > ... Why can I not write my own functions? I understand---perhaps incorrectly---that a control-block-overflow problem currently precludes implementing more BIFs; but making it possible for me to write my own, locally defined functions should be a much easier thing to do.
You can write your own external functions that can be called from the conditional assembly statements SETAF and SETCF. They are loaded dynamically when first invoked, and can not only perform operations not currently supported by HLASM's internal functions, but can also access the assembly environment to (for example) capture information about the CPU on which the assembler is executing. Will that help, or do you have something else in mind? John Ehrman
