In a dsect I would just define it as Acon with comment that it is really a Vcon
On Thu, Sep 10, 2020, 18:06 Charles Mills <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't know there is a best way. Anything that assembles clean and > expresses your intent. I have used DUMMYADR EQU 1 as a dummy value where > some address was needed. X'DEADBEEF' and similar values might be more > recognizable in a dump. Not sure anything that is not a valid symbol will > work in a VCON. V(FOO) is after all somewhat equivalent to EXTRN FOO. > > Charles > > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of [email protected] > Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2020 2:22 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: vcon in a dsect > > What is the best way to represent a VCON in a DSECT? A DS V requires some > value: > > TEST DSECT > TESTVCON DS 1VL4(DUMMY) > > or > > TESTVCON DS 1AL4(*-*) > > [TESTVCON DS 1VL4(*-*) generates assembler error message] > > Either way you get the 4-byte placeholder, but is there a preferred way > (or other way) of doing this? > > Thank you. >
