gil, Thats the reason I asked ..see my other post. Could say I have a vested interest. My late father
Scott J Ford Software Engineer http://www.identityforge.com/ ________________________________ From: Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2012 11:08 AM Subject: Re: COBOL packed decimal On Fri, 20 Jul 2012 11:43:45 -0400, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: > >>Is this because Unisys is deficient in conformance to the standard, >>or because IBM's implementation contains an extension to the >>standard? > >No, it's because UNIVAC used ones complement arithmetic on most of its >lines, Including the 1108 et al that Unisys inherited. > That's pretty vague. Does the standard specify the behavior as implementation defined, in which case a conforming program intended to be portable should avoid relying on either vendor's behavoir; or does one of the vendors deviate from the standard? -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
