On Jan 2, 2012, at 03:11, Bernd Oppolzer wrote: > > On Sun Solaris, there were other kinds of errors, which had to do with the > alignment of shorts, > ints, and longs. While optional on other platforms, this was mandatory on > Solaris. > This could also be a consequence of presuming little-endian.
> We are also constantly fighting with rounding problems - successfully most of > the time - , > because we use the classical HEXADEC representation for floating point on z/OS > (we have to communicate with PL/1 and - classical - ASSEMBLER). > Are you suggesting that ASSEMBLER lacks support for either IEEE BFP or DFP? Don't know about PL/I. -- gil
