> Is this useful? I think it is at least consistent (and yes, I know ...). I think ORG behaves the same way.
> is otiose Nay, it "documents" that two functions are being performed: achieving alignment and defining a label. "not the most compact representation" is not synonymous with otiose. Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Tuesday, June 2, 2020 8:40 AM To: [email protected] 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
