Shmuel wrote: <begin extract> Why would AMODE have any efffect on the resolution of address constants? Specifically, why would it have any effect on A-cons (you shouldn't be using V-cons for data)? <end extract>
This view may well be appropriate and adequate to the things Shmuel wants to do with data. My shared-tables system proceeds otherwise. Two of its principal table types are generated respectively by 242 and 1007 macros. Instances of a table type sometimes include a particular subtable/extension and sometimes do not; and I accordingly make heavy use of V-type ADCONs in generating them. (Currently, the HLASM supports an AD but no VD, and this has required be to do things that are less transparent than I should like them to be.) Moreover, as Shmuel ought properly to have garnered from this thread, the use of | DC A(<whatever>) instead of | DC AD(<whatever>) does make great trouble abover the bar. I suspect. however, that he did/does know this; he was, as too often, making a debater's point, not a substantive one. JOAT were better rendered JOATAMON. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
