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Subject: Re: programming style
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Date: 17 Mar 91 00:28:41 GMT
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In article <9103150812.AA15270@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, dandrews@bilver.UUCP (Dave
        Andrews) writes:
>>P.S. Another good reason to use DS 0H instead of EQU * is that
>>     TSO TEST knows labels defined with DS, but doesn't know
>>     labels defined with EQU.
>
>I believe that this is a limitation of the assembler, which won't
>produce "TESTRAN cards" (SYM records) for equates.  The SLAC mods
>address this issue.

I prefer neither DS 0H nor EQU *.  Since I frequently resort to using XPEDITER
to debug, and the latest version of XPEDITER doesn't recognize labels on
either DS 0H or EQU * lines, I use ANOP's.  Of course that wastes a little
space, but what they hey?

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