On 2017-03-01, at 12:06, John Walker wrote:
> This sounds like a C person trying to get Assembler to conform to C coding
> expectations. Is that a correct perception?
>
Or, just expecting consistent behavior throughout HLASM.
X EQU C'x'
LHI R1,X
ought to have the same behavior as:
LHI R1,C'x'
then:
MVI TARGET,X
the same as
MVI TARGET,C'x'
and:
DC Y(X)
the same as
DC Y(C'x')
Remember John D. asserted that absolute expressions have no type.
Hmmm... What's the length attribute of a relocatable expression
containing additional paired relocatable terms? The length attribute
of the unpaired term, or the length attribute of the first term, or
nothing?
MVC A-B+C,'Whatever' ... where A pairs with B???
-- gil
