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From: SYSSERV@DB0ADW11.BITNET (Lutz Hamann)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.asm370
Subject: Re: Long Programs ( > 4096 bytes)
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Date: 29 Nov 90 16:55:20 GMT
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On Mon, 5 Nov 90 13:42:08 EST <david@COSMIC1.COSMIC.UGA.EDU> said:
>I am writing a program that has gotten a little long...long enough to lose
>touch with the variables and literals.  I have used the multiple base-registers
>to offset this problem some, but it is still getting at me.  One reason is
>that I manipulate a matrix that is 4k long.  Can anyone make the concept of
>Control Sections and the method of dividing up a task so that each section
>can reference the variables it needs in a common block make sense to me?
>
What about this: Order your 4K via GETMAIN or DMSFREE (in CMS), remember the
address and use this address in a base-register.

                              Lutz