Yes, I did not notice this "warning" but the subsequent branch to oblivion
got my attention.  Didn't realize the csect had ballooned to 96K so it was
possible for jump targets to be more than 64K away.

Robert Ngan
CSC Financial Services Group

IBM Mainframe Assembler List <[email protected]> wrote on
2015/05/28 08:39:58:

> From: Steve Smith <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Date: 2015/05/28 08:41
> Subject: ASMA320W considered harmful
> Sent by: IBM Mainframe Assembler List <[email protected]>
>
> I don't always check warnings from HLASM, but today it's a good thing I
did:
>
> 00002DBC A7E5 96EE               00015B98   5858+         JAS
> R14,FORMAT_OFFSET_FIELD
> ASMA320W Immediate field operand may have incorrect sign or magnitude
>
> The generic immediate field warning is not appropriate here.  This is a
> guaranteed wild branch.
>
> Has no one ever run across this before?
>
> --
> sas

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