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.
Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Phil Smith III Sent: Tuesday, June 2, 2020 5:21 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: z/OS HLASM: EQU for statement labels Charles Mills wrote: >I use 0H if it is the beginning of a section of code and there might be >an odd-length DC in front of it. But I use * when I am jumping around >one instruction. That's an interesting stylistic trick. I like it. Probably a bit late for me to adopt it, alas (not writing much BAL any more).
