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Worth of note that this was also possible with MASM and TASM back in the MS-DOS days, and other 16 bit home platforms.

Hence why PC Assembly was so much more fun than dealing with it on UNIX derived platforms.

IBM S/370 Macro Assembler also was very feature-rich. I needed to have modules be loaded into the kernel in a certain order, so I implemented sorting of symbolic names in macro-asm (had to use loops at the macro level if I recall), and then assembly code would be emitted clean, already in the right sequence.

DCB was the same magic incantation as #include <stdio.h>

Interesting, thanks for sharing.

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