diff --git a/subx/apps/survey b/subx/apps/survey
index a76934f2..074b4ab6 100755
Binary files a/subx/apps/survey and b/subx/apps/survey differ
diff --git a/subx/apps/survey.subx b/subx/apps/survey.subx
index bc1b6650..50e5a705 100644
--- a/subx/apps/survey.subx
+++ b/subx/apps/survey.subx
@@ -317,6 +317,20 @@ test-convert-computes-addresses:
     5d/pop-to-EBP
     c3/return
 
+# global scratch space for compute-offsets in the data segment
+== data
+
+compute-offsets:curr-segment-name: 0/imm32/curr
+compute-offsets:curr-segment-name:end: 0/imm32/limit
+compute-offsets:file-offset: 0/imm32
+compute-offsets:segment-offset: 0/imm32
+compute-offsets:word-slice: 0/imm32/curr
+compute-offsets:word-slice:end: 0/imm32/limit
+compute-offsets:heap: 0/imm32/curr
+compute-offsets:heap:end: 0/imm32/limit
+
+== code
+
 compute-offsets:  # in : (address buffered-file), segments : (address stream {string, segment-info}), labels : (address stream {string, label-info})
     # pseudocode:
     #   var curr-segment-name = 0
@@ -2698,13 +2712,4 @@ $p_align:
   # compute the starting address for each segment
   0x1000/imm32
 
-compute-offsets:curr-segment-name: 0/imm32/curr
-compute-offsets:curr-segment-name:end: 0/imm32/limit
-compute-offsets:file-offset: 0/imm32
-compute-offsets:segment-offset: 0/imm32
-compute-offsets:word-slice: 0/imm32/curr
-compute-offsets:word-slice:end: 0/imm32/limit
-compute-offsets:heap: 0/imm32/curr
-compute-offsets:heap:end: 0/imm32/limit
-
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