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

[Bill Klein]

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-----
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> Behalf Of Roger While
> Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 12:21 PM
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> 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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