> On Sunday, August 13, 2023 at 03:53:19 AM PDT, Seymour J Metz > <[email protected]> wrote: > A technique that I have seen used in macros is to repurpose the length > attribute in order to define > FLAG1 DC AL1(L'TRACE) > TRACE EQU FLAG1,X'80' ENABLE TRACING
I strongly discourage the use length as a flag because it's inconsistent, confusing and serves no useful purpose. Be consistent with all other flag usage and if you want to document the flag field name, then include it in the comments. Anyone seeing this would ask themselves is there a bug for FLAG1. Code the following instead to include the flag field name: TRACE EQU X'80' FLAG1 - ENABLE TRACING
