Coordination would be helpful, but it is important to understand that
the HLASM Group and the statement-level language groups confront
different problems: their different option sets reflect different
situations.

Finally, the HLASM must decide how to process an operation-field
entry.   Is it a machine instruction.  An assembler instruction?  If
not, is it the name of an in-line macro definition or one resident in
the MACLIB concatenation for the current assembly?  If not, error.

The statement-level language compilers, on the other hand, need to
know what machine instructions may appear in the object modules they
generate.  For the same source-language construct a compiler
may---often does---generate very different machine-instruction
sequences for different ARCH values.

These two problems are similar in the sense that they have common
elements, but they are very different in other ways.

John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA

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