Steve Smith wrote, in part:

>Note that I don't think EQU * should be used in data areas either, where it

>is potentially more dangerous.   This is the kind of error that motivated

>me to write this up.

 

I'm sure it can be; what's wrong with this:

 

SOME     DSECT ,

SOMEA    DS    F

SOMEB    DS    F

SOMENAME DS    CL8

SOMEREST EQU   *

 

In this case, SOMEREST is the end of the defined part of the DSECT and the rest 
is some sort of free-fire zone (or mapped by other DSECTs, or whatever). I've 
done that a million times, never regretted it; IBM does it all the time. What's 
wrong with it?

 

.phsiii (this is fun!)

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