Benjamin White writes:
| Yes, I have been considering extending java.math.BigDecimal. My first
Java Z/series programs
| have converted the packed decimal byte array to Unicode for display.
and I am much impressed. I hope the two single machine instructions
o PKU, PacK Unicode, and
o UNPKU, UnPacK Unicode,
figured at least implicitly in this horrendous effort.
As I noted earlierJava does much of its arithmetic in BFP, some of under the
covers; and the notion of converting PD values into BFP for use in C/C++ or
Java environments, while it can certainly be characterized, even
stigmatized, as a standard practice, is also a good one, the best one at
least until ASCII DFP becomes available on z/Architecture machines.
John Gilmore
Ashland, MA 01721-1817
USA
_________________________________________________________________
Dont just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search!
http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/
----------------------------------------------------------------------
For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,
send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO
Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
