On Tue, 26 Feb 2013 08:11:50 -0600, Paul Gilmartin wrote:

>And, of course, the SECTALGN convention is to be preferred despite
>being more verbose because it allows extension at some time in
>the unforseeable future when a boundary not a power of 2 might
>become useful.

You lost me with that.  More verbose than what?
I suppose someone might find it useful to (for example) align a CSECT 
to a doubleword boundary that is not a quadword boundary.  I don't 
know why someone would want to do that.  SECTALGN does not allow 
any such specification.

The value specified for SECTALGN is an integer that is used as a power 
of 2 to specify the alignment required.
0=byte
1=halfword
2=word
3=doubleword
4=quadword
5=8-word
6=16-word...
10=page

Only a few of these are honored.

-- 
Tom Marchant

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