The relative instructions are invaluable for large csects, but in this case I believe that they are overkill. All he needs is the judicious placement of DROP.
OTOH, they are definitely instructions worth his time to learn. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List <[email protected]> on behalf of Tom Marchant <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, November 8, 2023 6:41 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Internal Exit Routine Handling As Tony mentioned, you can use LARL. You can also use BRAS (Branch Relative and Save) to call the subroutine. No base register is needed to reference storage for these, or any of the other relative instructions. -- Tom Marchant
