On 3/30/26 07:01, Seymour J Metz wrote:
That sounds different from what I asked about. With new syntax there's no conflict with existing code. Something like the below would have no ambiguity:IILH R1,[DC AL1(C' ',0)] ...
Are you proposing adding non-invariant EBCDIC characters to HLASM's vocabulary? That would surely increase traffic on these fora. I suppose HLASM could accept alternatives in several supported CCSIDs. Would LOCTR help with this? The PDP-6 assembler, MACRO, made a literal: < any sequence of instructions and/or data > replacing some uses of LOCTR. There are unexpected restrictions on literals. IIRC: LA R1,=F'42' works, but DC S(=F'42') fails, etc. I suspect this is due to a limit of CALL/RETURN nesting. -- gil
