According to the HLASM Language Reference manual (SC26-4940), the START
statement may be used to create the first control section in an assembly and
define an expression that is used to set the initial location counter. For
example:
START X'1000'
BR 14
END
should generate an assembly where the BR instruction appears at location 1000
hex.
However, the z/390 assembler does not appear to recognize the expression on the
START statement, and flags no error for this. In the listing, the address of
the BR14 is zero, and in object file, the relative address in the .TXT record
is also zero ... regardless of what expression I use.
This is certainly not a major issue, and I can easily circumvent it. But, I was
curious if I'm incorrectly using START (or is this behavior an undocumented
feature)?
