From: Bernd Oppolzer <[email protected]> Date: Monday, 28 March 2011 0:38
>Really? This would imply, IMHO, that PL/1 on Windows emulates the >mainframe HFP format. PL/I on Windows provides the choice of IEEE arithmetic and mainframe for floating-point. > 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.
