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- A data-item-description entry is a data description entry (here
used to refer to both data and record description entries) that specifies the
characteristics of a data item.
- Record description entries and data item description entries in the
Linkage Section provide names and descriptions, but storage within the program
is not reserved because the data area exists elsewhere.
- The ADDRESS OF special register exists for each record (01 or 77) in the
Linkage Section, except for those records that redefine each other. In
such cases, the ADDRESS OF special register is similarly redefined. The
ADDRESS OF special register is implicitly defined USAGE IS POINTER.
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