Melvyn Maltz writes: > I have to thank my esteemed colleague Don Higgins for enabling this post > > IILF R3,MYLABEL > ... > MYLABEL DC 'HELLO'
Support for this technique was enabled by APAR PH30740 only a few days ago, at the end of October. When four-byte non-relative immediate operands were first implemented, a relocatable value was simply rejected with ASMA032E (even though relocatable values were accepted for example for relative immediate operands with the GOFF option). Any four-byte immediate operand can now be relocatable. It is relocated in the same way as an A-type address constant, except that any reference to "*" within the value is taken to be the address of the instruction rather than the address of the 4-byte immediate field within it. Jonathan Scott, HLASM IBM Hursley, UK
