Wow, exactly. Our code just doesn't jibe with LE and there seems to be no way 
around it...

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Von: IBM Mainframe Assembler List [mailto:[email protected]] Im 
Auftrag von David P de Jongh
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 27. Juni 2013 20:56
An: [email protected]
Betreff: Re: wish? for two new instructions.

As we had been using the stack storage concept since the late 1970's, with a 
suite of entry, exit, call and DSA macros, it was relatively easy to make all 
of our assembler programs LE-compliant for our 1998 release.  For most 
assembler programmers, however, the thought of LE seems akin to entering the 
den of the basilisk.

David de Jongh

On 06/27/13, John Gilmore<[email protected]> wrote:

CC has made my point better than I did.

For reasons that I have never really understood assembly-language
programmers almost always use heap storage for DSAs instead of the
stack storage they should use. (Their failure to use an extension of
such a stack-based DSA for scratch/automatic/local storage is a
little, but only a little, more excusable.)

John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA

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