On Wed, 17 Jul 2024 at 16:56, João Reginato <jb.regin...@gmail.com> wrote:

> As you can see, WKLEN already has a calculated value of x'023c' when the
> second EQU is written.
> Why don't use it?
>
>               0023C                 25379  WKLEN               EQU
> *-WKSAVE
>               00684 00004     25380  WKAREA             EQU
> WKSAVE,WKLEN
>

The listing with the length shown that you are relying on to make that
claim was produced long after the second EQU was evaluated. The assembler
is not a single pass one, and doesn't assemble quite the way a human would.
(Though it's certainly much closer to that than are the old Asm F and XF
and their relatives.)

Tony H.

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