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On Mon, 5 Nov 90 13:42:08 EST <david@COSMIC1.COSMIC.UGA.EDU> said:
>Okay, simple question for those of you who do this sort of thing all the time:
>
>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?
>
>AIIIGH!  I hate being born in the age of Pascal and C....I happen to like
>370 ASM....
Hi David,
  First thing to do is to move the matrix to the end of the program,
after the literal pool, if you don't have a "LTORG ," statement add one
before the matrix.  Next change the way you address the matrix, use
"L Rxx,=A(MATRIX)" instead of "LA Rxx,MATRIX", the LA might work for a
while if the first byte of matrix is addressable.  Control sections
isn't really needed here.  If you want more info on control sections
give me a call, I hate typing.

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