On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 2:08 PM, Seymour J Metz <[email protected]> wrote:

> Sequence numbers are useful even if you've never even seen a picture of a
> Hollerith card.  They are convenient for editing, and assembler error
> messages with sequence numbers make it much easier to fix errors.
>

​Hum, I just look at the listing and do a find on ASMA to see the errors
"in context".

I will say that I really like IBM's approach to generating listings and
errors. I use the GCC compiler on Linux and sometimes it is a royal PITA to
figure out that the <elided> the error message is talking about.​



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> Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
> http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3
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