Coding comments

Comments can contain any characters valid in the assembler language. You can write comments after the operand field, but they must meet the following criteria:

Comments must begin in column 17 or beyond.
Comments must be separated from the last operand in the field by one or more blanks.
Comments must not extend into the continuation column, column 72.

Comments can be continued on more than one line by placing an asterisk (*) in column one as shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1. How to code comments and continuation lines

Note: A macroinstruction that has no operands cannot have comments on APPCCMD identifier line.

An entire line can be used for a comment; place an asterisk in the first column of the line. If you need several entire lines for comments, place an asterisk in the first column of each line and leave column 72 blank.

In this manual, the comments field is not shown in the macroinstruction syntax diagram.