Hi Tim We've met at several of your COBOL SHARE sessions in the past, and I hope to see you in Austin.
You are correct, zcobol first release will have FLOAT-SHORT, FLOAT-LONG, and FLOAT-EXTENDED usage options with global option to choose between HFP, BFP, or DFP with DFP as the default. Some might want HFP for compatibility with older COBOL compiler results. Some might want BFP for IEEE compatibility with floating point in other target execution language environments. I think DFP is the preferred choice barring other constraints since it gives precise decimal results up to 34 digits. Don Higgins d...@higgins.net www.zcobol.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
