An advantage of "DC X'00xx'" is it shows up in the "data at the PSW" in the
abend summary.
Use a combination of both:
DC X'00xx'
DC C'This is why the moon is blue.'
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-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of John McKown
Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2017 2:43 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Quick error termination of an assembler routine (Was: Performance
of Decimal Floating Point Instruction)
On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 1:34 PM, Gibney, Dave <[email protected]> wrote:
> In days of limited storage, sure. But, today, why not DC X''
> DC C'I blew up here because the moon is blue'
>
>
Looks nice. I'd probably do
DC H'0',C'FIXME: YOU DID SOMETHING WEIRD AND I''M CONFUSED.'
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