> It is illogical that this does not work but that is the way it is.
>
> Do S-constants work? That is, is S(=x'123') valid, and might that work for
> you?
>
> Do you have to use literals? Can you use named constants instead?
>
> Charles
I have this issue in a set of macro's that generate a data structure. The
assembler source that contains the macro's looks like this:
FQM5831R FQ536STR
FQ536GRS imsout
FQ536GRS ctl
FQ536FLD rc,'PIC X(8)'
FQ536FLD rsn,'PIC X(8)'
FQ536FLD rsnmsg,'PIC X(8)'
FQ536FLD rsntxt,'PIC X(128)'
FQ536GRE
FQ536GRS msgdata,OPT=YES
FQ536GRS mbr,OPT=YES
FQ53Z# TKN=X'0508000000000004'
FQ53ZGP
FQ536FLD msg,'PIC X(80)'
FQ53ZC MNM=0,MXM=8
FQ536GRE
FQ536GRE
FQ536GRE
FQ536END
END
The macros have to generate a data structure that encodes this record layout.
Fieldnames like 'startDate' and 'endDate' tend to occur more than once in a
structure (on different levels) and I only want to generate the literal once.
If I could calculate a A constant from an S-constant (by adding the start of
literal pool) this might work. I'll give it a go.
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