Jonathan S wrote: <snip> By default, alignment stronger than quadword is rounded up to 4K,
for compatibility with the limitations of the load module format. </snip> I suspect that, even if this is true, the actual statement is that any alignment stronger than doubleword (rather than quadword) results in the module being loaded on a page boundary. That is a statement for the entire module, not for each individual section. This is simply because the "desired" alignment is not known in the directory entry; there is only a bit for page-aligned vs not page-aligned (which will be doubleword-aligned). So if you need a section ordered on a boundary stronger than doubleword, the module must be on a page boundary. It is not the case that this necessarily causes the module to be rounded to a 4K multiple. Peter Relson z/OS Core Technology Design
