Kirk Talman wrote:
If the storage is not cleared by the load module, it is cleared by the environment. So not being cleared in the module might make the module a speck smaller.
This is certainly true for very large areas created by the DS instruction. OTOH, the control data required to change to a new offset is generally larger than any slack bytes skipped for alignment.
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