On 27 June 2016 at 09:04, John McKown <[email protected]> wrote: > &NULL SETC BYTE(00) > STRING DC 'HELPME&NULL' > > Not quite as pungent, but better. Does anybody have a better way? Should I > just make a macro, perhaps DCZ, to do the above for me automatically? > > This is more a technique question than a technical one. What would be more > understandable to most HLASM programmers?
As an old assembler programmer I don't find this approach at all bad or unintuitive. Where it will bite you down the road is when you start putting your listings into UNIX files, and/or viewing them on Windows. Something somewhere is going to choke on that zero byte. Tony H.
