I have sometimes coded an EQU symbol for a self-defining term when I thought it
might be useful to be able to have all instructions using that self-defining
term show up in the cross-reference, and when the self-defining term was so
short that doing a find for that character string would catch way too many
other instructions in which the same character string was present but not as a
self-defining term.
E.g., if I need to put "14" in a register I might code
"FOURTEEN EQU 14"
L R4,=A(FOURTEEN)
But if I code this
L R4,=A(14)
And I want to find the instruction which puts 14 into R4 and I do that with a
find command, then I will also find all instructions involving "R14", which
would likely produce far too many to skip over.
Bill Fairchild
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Subject: Re: code comments
FIFTYSIX EQU 56 Data bytes in a TXT record
I suppose the coding standards required EQUates for all self-defining terms.
