I think it may have been an parody of a joke:
Question: "How much money is enough?"
Answer: "Just a little bit more."
In assembler, it is "how many bytes do you need to be resolvable to a valid
offset?" "just a few more."
It's why I (as a customer only), love doing "baseless" programming. I separate
the code and data sections, using a base register only for the data section. I
load the base register using an LAY (if contained in the same CSECT). I now
also use "pure" coding techniques. In this case "pure" means that I never store
into the CSECT itself. Actually, I use an RSECT. This is a requirement for
writing DLLs in HLASM. Which I have successfully done ("beause I can").
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List
> [mailto:ASSEMBLER-LIST@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of robin
> Sent: Monday, June 04, 2012 5:20 AM
> To: ASSEMBLER-LIST@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Subject: Re: Base registers
>
> From: Rob van der Heij
> Sent: Monday, 4 June 2012 4:41 PM
>
> On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 2:45 AM, robin <robi...@dodo.com.au> wrote:
>
> >> There's no need to be scared of an odd value.
> >> It is, after all, the assembler that calculates displacements.
> >> If it bothers you, make it 4092. Still no extra
> instruction needed.
>
> >Since most of the time you just new a few more bytes anyway ;-)
>
> Even with the nonsense word changed a la Martin,
> your response still doesn't make sense.
>
>
