Simulating a Data Structure in Assembler.
The line labeled LOCOREC is the equivalent of the Top Level in either COBOL or PLI.
See the equivalent COBOL structure.
See the equivalent PLI structure.
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No Data Structures
Whatever we may think, Storage, or Memory if preferred, is processed as a linear string one byte in width.
In that context, unlike high level programming languages, Assembler does not support Data Structure Definitions as such,
so the code opposite simulates a structure.
The first and last lines are comments intended to ensure that new lines, unrelated to the record, are not inserted in this area of code, but
to maintain integrity this code is best stored as a COPY book, rather than being coded in-line.