On May 26, 2012, at 18:28, John Ehrman wrote:
>> So, HLASM is apparently very good at inferring the length of >> the first argument to CLC at Pass 2, when it's needed, even in >> the challenging case of a previously unreferenced literal. > > By pass 2, the literal is well established, so it's not a challenge by > then. > Now, I'm truly mystofo > Could you clarify > >> What I think would be most useful is a new >> BIF, to return the length of an argument, ... > > I'm not sure if by "argument" you mean an operand of a machine instruction > statement like CLC (would L' work?), or an argument to a macro (would K' > work?), or something else? > > This works OK for almost all cases that don't require recursion or multiple > passes: > > X DC CL(L'Another_Symbol)'value' > > John Ehrman
