On 2018-08-02, at 09:06:36, Steve Smith wrote: > Yes, DS "skips" bytes for alignment, and those skipped aren't guaranteed to > be anything. But why would you care? > ... > > On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 7:15 PM, jbaker wrote: >> .... >> The use of " DC " in lieu of " DS " ensures that memory locations skipped >> over by virtue of alignment are initialized to zeroes. >> That's what the HLASM Ref. clearly says. Decades ago, a colleague told me they were filled with the padded nominal value. Unless the specification has changed he was misinformed, and now I'm un-misinformed.
But, yeah, what Steve said. -- gil
