What AMBLIST does, and all it does, is make IDRs (IDentification
Records)---They are generated by the binder in response to IDENTIFY
statements in its input stream---available.

If a compiler propagates information about the options that were used
in a compilation, AMBLIST makes it available.  If not, not.

Most current IBM translators do propagate this information, together
with a product identification, version and modification level, and
translation date;  and the binder does the same thing for itself

What I should perhaps have mentioned in my original post is that these
IDRs are different for load modules and program objects.  Multiple
IDRs for a CSECT, RSECT or COMMON section are not supported for load
modules.  They are supported for program objects.  User data may be at
most 40 bytes in length in load-module CSECT IDRs and at most 80 bytes
in length in program-object CSECT IDRs.

Worth noting while I am in pedagogue mode is that users are free to
generate IDRs too, one for each load-module CSECT and many of them for
each program-object CSECT.

John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA

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