Diagnostic aids

In certain situations when an assembly cannot be completed, High Level Assembler requests its internal abnormal termination routine to produce a specially formatted dump. Diagnostic information in the dump can be useful if an APAR is needed. The types of data that can be extracted from the dump include:
  • Assembly abnormal-termination messages
  • Register contents when the abnormal termination was requested
  • The assembler common-storage area
  • The statement that was being processed when the abnormal termination was requested

The contents of the dump depend upon when the abnormal termination was requested during processing of the assembly.

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