What release of what compiler. I remember when IBM changed the default for FIXED BIN from (31,0) to (15,0) in order to eliminate some annoying anomalies that didn't occur in FORTRAN. Of course, back in those days there were fewer compiler options to muddy the waters.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of Bob Bridges <robhbrid...@gmail.com> Sent: Monday, September 7, 2020 10:48 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: PL/I integers (was: Constant Identifiers) All of this is really fascinating (and no, I'm not being facetious): A bunch of apparently knowledgeable PL/1 programmers cannot agree on a point that would seem to have a single indisputable answer. Rather than keep on saying "yes it is" / "no it isn't", couldn't one or two of you from both sides run a program demonstrating your claim? It would probably be necessary to define the compiler you're running, too. --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* Oh good. Now he'll be bi-ignorant. -Texas Agriculture Commissioner Jim Hightower when told that Texas Governor Bill Clements had been studying Spanish */ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
