If I code SECTALGN(16) for a Binder invocation I get alignment on a doubleword boundary, at an address A such that A = 0 mod(16).
If instead I code STARTBDY=16 in a STORAGE GET macro I get alignment on a 2^16 = 65536-byte boundary, at an address A such that A = 0 mod(2^16), i.e., A = 0 mod(65536). Different groups view the world differently; this disparity is nevertheless a poster boy for an architectural police force. Options that were once arcane, the province of coloro che sanno, are coming into regular use by the mandolinisti too; and more coherence is called for. In this case, however, it is clearly too late to impose coherence. Some notions need to be strangled in their cribs, and one of these escaped before it could be dispatched. 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
