"IBM Mainframe Assembler List" <[email protected]> wrote on
06/07/2023 02:02:58 PM:
> No! Not a hexadecimal comparison. If it were, 11 would compare higher
than
> AA at least in an EBCDIC environment.
You're too literal. I didn't say the comparison was on the
hexadecimal *value*. What I mean by a hexadecimal comparison (and I've
seen it used this way elsewhere) is that it is a bit-by-bit, left-to-right
unsigned comparison.
Proof that you understood that, but chose to object anyway, is
that you *didn't* object to it being called a *character* comparison --
even though I explicitly said that first. After all, it is not truly a
*character* comparison, either.
It is a bit-by-bit, left-to-right unsigned comparison and I've
seen that called both a character comparison and a hexadecimal comparison
because it is shorter to say and it is generally understood correctly even
if the actual wording is nonsensical.
I'll not argue it further.
Sincerely,
Dave Clark
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