So it is a sort of LARL instruction (AMODE31) One wonders as to the justification for this requirement.
On Tue, 24 Nov 2020 10:48:48 +0000 Jonathan Scott <[email protected]> wrote: :>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. -- Binyamin Dissen <[email protected]> http://www.dissensoftware.com Director, Dissen Software, Bar & Grill - Israel Should you use the mailblocks package and expect a response from me, you should preauthorize the dissensoftware.com domain. I very rarely bother responding to challenge/response systems, especially those from irresponsible companies.
