Really? This would imply, IMHO, that PL/1 on Windows emulates the mainframe HFP format. I can't believe that this is true. It would be much slower than using the floating point format of the underlying hardware, that is, Intel IEEE. I'm almost sure, that this is what the PL/1 compiler on windows uses, and so you have the same issues and the same platform dependencies as with other languages with PL/1, too.
Kind regards Bernd Am 27.03.2011 04:04, schrieb robin:
I mentioned IBM's PL/I, which provides traditional mainframe floating-point on Windows. It's also the same compiler, so results on either platform would be identical, given the same compiler options.
