Actually, I think 'small' means a 12 bit unsigned binary integer for LA and 20 bits for LAY. And with LAY you can simply express the displacement as a negative.
>> LA is good fir small values. > >"Small" means when you can tolerate truncation to 24 or 31 bits. >You can use LA to subtract 1 if you have a negative value in a base register, >subject to the same limit.
