Which implies use of *+n may be permissible in home-grown macros as long as the assembler coders in your shop who maintain macros are of the same calibre as IBMs, eh?

Gary Weinhold
DKL

On 2015-07-03 00:43, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote:
At 21:21 +0100 on 07/02/2015, Dougie Lawson wrote about Re: *+n branches:

IBM macros tended to use * with a positive offset because it made coding
the macro easier

They did this since they knew how far to branch (there was no possibility for an additional instruction to be slipped in) as well as to not pollute the symbol table with one time use labels.

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