In <[email protected]>, on
08/27/2012
at 06:43 PM, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> said:
>But its length attribute is nonzero. In fact, IIRC, HLASM will
>never create a symbol with length attribute of zero;
Don't confuse symbol with SET symbol.
The assembler assigns the character string value represented in
the operand field to the SETC symbol in the name field. The
string length must be in the range 0 (null character string)
through 1024 characters.
>I believe (without trying it again) that
>ANSWER EQU 42,0
>results in an assembler error.
Yes, but that's not
&ANSWER SETC ''
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