On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 3:08 PM, Gibney, Dave <[email protected]> wrote:
> It's been 35 years :) It might even have been a packed field. But it did > loop because the negative representation of zero did not match the zero the > code was looping unitl :) > > ​Oh, yeah, a packed negative zero, 0x0D​ ​, might not get recognized in a COBOL program. I don't remember the compile options back then, but I think there was one which said "all zones are correct" and the code would do a CLC instead of a CP because it was faster on the machine.​ -- Unix: Some say the learning curve is steep, but you only have to climb it once. -- Karl Lehenbauer Unicode: http://xkcd.com/1726/ Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
