It would be sensible for EQUed symbols to assume all the attributes of the
"target" unless overridden.  But that's not what our forefathers did, and
it's not likely to change.  I suppose you could write a macro...
 MACRO
&name $EQU &X
&name EQU &X,L'&X,T'&X
 MEND

On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 11:45 AM, Tony Harminc <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 16 November 2016 at 07:48, Thomas David Rivers <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> >       - For an EQU instruction, the Addr2 field contains the length
> assigned.
>
> So it seems it indicates the length explicitly assigned, if any, but
> not the length of the EQUated-to item. Which is consistent with the
> behaviour that a symbol EQUated without a length has an implied length
> of 1, presumably for consistency with ancient practice.
>
> Maybe there's a call for a new option to allow EQU to take the length
> by default from the expression on the right. But this would probably
> break some (probably not much) existing code.
>
> Tony H.
>



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