I should of course have written STORAGE OBTAIN and not STORAGE GET. I have also verified that Edward Jaffe's clarification is entirely correct. I am now more than a little curious to discover how this particular bug was discovered.
It is clear that one can specify GOFF and quadword alignment and then, avoiding with care or having had the blind luck to avoid any GOFF features that are not supported by the linkage editor (or the binder pretending to be the linkage editor), obtain a load module. What is not entirely clear is why anyone would wish to do so. (I can think of a scenario or two, but none is very plausible.) About Peter Relson's comment: I do not think that the use of residue-class arithmetic should be equated with Houdini-like escape skills. Gauss invented it as an early adolescent; and now, 250 years on, the rest of us should be able to use it, at least as adults. More generally---I will not labor this argument---there are many situations in which it seems to me that CNOP is the most natural device to use to obtain unusual or varying alignments within an instruction stream, not least because its effect is local and not global. It is free of surprising and sometimes noxious side effects. Others may of course have other views. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
