What's the problem? EQU has a length operand.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List [ASSEMBLER-LIST@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] on behalf of Paul Gilmartin [00000014e0e4a59b-dmarc-requ...@listserv.uga.edu] Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2020 12:07 PM To: ASSEMBLER-LIST@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Re: Conditional MVCL macro? On 2020-10-21, at 09:20:31, Seymour J Metz wrote: > > Unless performance is an issue, I generally opt for simplicity. If > performance is an issue I encapsulate it in a macro that generates different > code for different processors. > It's harder for an EQUated symbolic length; worse yet for a dynamically calculated value. Beware buffer overruns. Let a compiler handle it. -- gil