On Dec 30, 2021, at 16:25:27, Joseph Reichman wrote:
> 
> You think processing adata is simpler I mean they data names are not in  
> order 
>  
Oh, they're in order.  The order is just undocumented.

>> On Dec 30, 2021, at 5:41 PM, Bob Raicer wrote:
>>     ...
>> For reasons lost in antiquity, an explicitly specified Length value
>> must be positive, e.g., CL0' ' is invalid.
>>  
I have long suspected that is to support storing the biased length
in  single byte, as in SS instructions.  Storage was precious.

>>     ..., the length attribute of a DSECT ... is always 1 ...
>>  
Bummer.

-- gil

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