> Is this useful? Only if you're a sadist.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List [ASSEMBLER-LIST@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] on behalf of Paul Gilmartin [00000014e0e4a59b-dmarc-requ...@listserv.uga.edu] Sent: Tuesday, June 2, 2020 11:40 AM To: ASSEMBLER-LIST@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Re: z/OS HLASM: EQU for statement labels On 2020-06-02, at 09:33:48, Charles Mills wrote: > > I don't claim any benefit to the technique, it's just my habit. Actually I > think the cleanest is a DS 0H followed by label EQU *. That clearly shows > what is going on: re-establishing halfword alignment followed by mapping a > label to an address. > I found it ironic that: LABEL CNOP ... assigns the address of the beginning of the padding rather than the end to LABEL. Is this useful? Fortunately, LABEL DS 0H does the opposite so your 2-instruction construct is otiose. -- gil
