On Tue, 26 Feb 2013 18:59:01 -0500, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote: > >You want Quadword alignment of something in the CSECT without any gas >preceding it due to it being Quadword aligned. IOW: It has an offset >of an odd number DWs from the start of the CSECT. > What I was more thinking of was that on the 3350 an optimum block size was 6KiB, 3 times the 2KiB page size supported on the S/360 (370?) So it might have been useful to page in 6KiB quanta, and alignment on a 6KiB boundary (not a power of 2) might have been useful.
I suppose data chaining could handle that sort of thing. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
