LARL does indeed work with "truly" external symbols. It does require an explicit EXTRN declaration for the symbol.
One subtle advantage of this is that the binder finishes the relocation, and program fetch doesn't have to adjust it (as it does A/V-cons). sas On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 2:11 PM Farley, Peter x23353 < peter.far...@broadridge.com> wrote: > LARL is no help if it is truly an external (not in the current source) > program or entry point. > > If it really external, your 3 lines are the only way I can see to do it so > that the VCON is in the second word of the instruction. > > Or with a macro that does the 3 lines for you. > > And yes, LLILF is a fullword (not halfword) instruction, to that would be > the right one to use. > > Peter
