How about something like this: BEGIN CSECT
USING BEGIN ,15 LR 12,15 DROP 1 5 USING BEGIN,12 B ORIGIN2 ORIGIN1 EQU * ORG *+1000 ORIGIN2 put all your executable code here, which includes references using base registers (this was 1976, remember) ..... end of executable code ORG ORIGIN1 LTORG , ORG , resume executable code Not that this would be useful, but I thihk this would get all the literals defined at the beginning. Anyway, IBM has been putting a Branch instruction at the beginning of their modules, followed by much eyecatcher info, for a lot longer than "baseless" coding has been promulgated. And doing that did not eliminate their need for base registers, either. Bill Fairchild Franklin, TN ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ed Jaffe" <edja...@phoenixsoftware.com> To: ASSEMBLER-LIST@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2013 10:11:19 AM Subject: Re: Baseless problem On 4/11/2013 7:45 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > I believe LOCTR is fairly new. Some of my co-workers are old > enough not to know about it. Bitsavers would probably know, > but why bother. Why bother? I am curious to know how Mike Shaw observed the literals-physically-first technique implemented using 1976-era assemblers. Using HLASM, I don't know how to make literals physically precede the code that declares them without the use of LOCTR, but I'm willing to learn. -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software International, Inc 831 Parkview Drive North El Segundo, CA 90245 http://www.phoenixsoftware.com/
