As opposed to a signed integer? For C, X'10000000' compares greater than x'80000000'.
For CL, the reverse is true (a bit-for-bit comparison). Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List [mailto:ASSEMBLER-LIST@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of Phil Smith III Sent: Monday, June 12, 2023 4:08 PM To: ASSEMBLER-LIST@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Re: Shower thought Jonathan Scott wrote: >On trying to catch up with this thread I don't think I saw what >I would have considered the most likely reason for the term >"logical". >I assumed the word "logical" refers to Boolean logical values >(true and false, usually represented as 1 and 0) and hence to a >bit string. So logical comparisons simply treat the operand as >a bit string. Well, I thought I covered that with my first thought that it was a yes/no on the comparison. But even beyond that, I don't think that it makes sense to say that it treats it as a bit string-as opposed to what?
