Well, you can't make an omelet without breaking eggs. I am not a big SETA symbol user, and I admit I have never lusted after
&FOO SETA 9223372036854775807 But it's hard to picture how you get there without introducing ASMADATA changes of some sort. Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Friday, July 04, 2014 7:47 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: HLASM doubleword set-symbol arithmetic On Fri, 4 Jul 2014 18:12:42 -0700, Charles Mills wrote: >No one would be obligated to use 64-bit set symbols. There could be an >assembler option to produce "old" or "new" ASMADATA/disallow or allow 64-bit >set symbols. ASMADATA has "version" indicators in every record. This is a >solvable problem. > But I hate options. Options geometrically multiply the effort of testing. And we generally agree that the vendor is resource-constrained. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
