RE: [open-cobol-list] Call for testers - COMP-1/2

[Roger While]

Yes, agreed. That's why I didn't put it into CVS. I just put in
the framework so that people could hack it (and hopefully
report back). It's not ready for prime time yet. (But it's
enough to do some testing)

Roger

> Please, PLEASE, do not make COMP-1 equal to FLOAT-SHORT and COMP-2 equal 
> to
> FLOAT-LONG - or at least make this "selectable" (under UNUSUAL conditions)
>
> COMP-1 and COMP-2 originated with IBM and are typically (even on the PC - 
> by
> default) a "hex" floating point that has NOTHING to do with IEEE floating
> point.  FLOAT-SHORT and FLOAT-LONG *should* be implemented as IEEE.
>
> For more information, check out the
>    NATIVE-FLOATING-POINT
> directive for Micro Focus
>
> or the FLOAT(NATIVE) compiler option for IBM.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: address@hidden
> > [mailto:address@hidden On
> > Behalf Of Roger While
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 12:21 PM
> > To: address@hidden
> > Subject: [open-cobol-list] Call for testers - COMP-1/2
> >
> > Note quite ready for CVS yet.
> > Preliminary support for :
> > COMP-1 aka FLOAT-SHORT and
> > COMP-2 aka FLOAT-LONG
> >
> > Download at :
> > http://www.sim-basis.de/opencvs.tar.gz
> >
> > Unpacks to directory "opencvs".
> >
> > If anyone's interested, try it and report back.
> >
> > Roger
> >
> >
> >
> >
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