We leave that as an exercise for the student. Charles
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List [mailto:ASSEMBLER-LIST@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Monday, November 8, 2021 4:24 PM To: ASSEMBLER-LIST@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Re: Base-less macros On Nov 8, 2021, at 16:42:40, Charles Mills wrote: > > Are the rules special for literals? > > Yes. Literals have always aligned on a "multiple-of-length-power2" boundary. > =CL8... will be on a doubleword. > And LA R1,-CL128'x' on a 128 byte boundary? >> What if you want a speciic length?: >> LARL R3,=CL5'ABCDE-' > > You can't always get what you want. -- Mick Jagger > > CL5'whatever' is a 5-byte literal. -- gil
