Re: [suse-programming-e] Does anyone know a online IBM390 resource??

COBOL's format allows the programmer to specify the precision of the number. This is supported by the IBM mainframe's decimal arithmentic logic. There is no analogy in the C language. Floating point is only an approximation. For instance, the COBOl specification:s9999999.99 will be stored as 5 bytes (packed decimal) with each nybble being a value between 0 and 9 decimal (except the low order nybble for the sign). There is no limit to the size of a number. While I have not looked at TinyCobol, it most likely maps its fixed point decimal to floating point. Greg Freemyer wrote:

The code is very mathematical and it heavily uses cobol's weird fixed point logic. -- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9