At the bottom of page 53 of the current HLASM Language Reference there is a list of the assembler instructions---EQU among them--- that (in addition to all machine instructions) implicitly establish an unnamed section, private code, if one has not already been been established explicltly by a CSECT, RSECT, or START statement.
The scope of EQU and these other assembler instructions is the section in which they appear, and if none such has already been established, the assembler necessarily creates a scope for them by creating an unnamed section for them. PC is now an overloaded term, one that needs to be used carefully. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA
