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.

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