What are you suggesting as a "fix"? If a symbol such as CVTPTR has been defined with an EQU (as it has since OS/360 in the 1960s) it obviously cannot be redefined to make it relocatable (for example as a field in a DSECT) without triggering compatibility problems in existing code.
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz writes: > The problem isn't in the assembler, but in the IBM mapping macros that have > EQU to absolute addresses. FLAG(, PAGE0) is doing what it is supposed to > do. > > For new code, there's no issue: use, e.g., CVTPTR(,0), FLCCVT. Jonathan Scott, HLASM IBM Hursley, UK
