On Nov 8, 2021, at 01:26:34, Martin Truebner wrote: > ... > I never had readability concerns/complains about this > > EX R4,=S(&MVC,TARGET,SOURCE) > > with appropriate EQUs at the beginning of the code. > I'm curious how you EQU &MVC to generate an S-constant properly.
> Well; almost never. Exception was at some point in the late > 90ties, someone at IBM-HLASM group decided to spit out an e-level > error, which can be overruled. > Does ignoring E- level errors still result in correct generated code? I've seen some surprising behavior such as: LA R1,=E'3.14' works DC S(=E'3.14') fails to resolve the same base-displacement. -- gil