Ref: Your note of Mon, 8 Nov 2021 03:32:34 -0700 An attempt to execute a literal gives warning ASMA016W which can be suppressed by the NOEXLITW option.
gil writes: > I've seen some surprising behavior such as: > LA R1,=E'3.14' works > DC S(=E'3.14') fails to resolve the same base-displacement. That is simply because literals are processed by the same routine as DC statements, and that routine does not fully support recursive nested calls. The complexity of removing that restriction did not seem to be worth the benefits. Jonathan Scott, HLASM IBM Hursley, UK
