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> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Arellanes
> Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 12:21 AM
> To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
> Subject: Re: (fwd) Re: Is IT becoming extinct?
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> >I gotta ask this, hope you don't mind. Why is the code generation for
> >fullword binary so weird?
>
> Try TRUNC(OPT), you will get:
>
> LH 2,14(0,10) PGMLIT AT +10
> A 2,0(0,8) MYDATA
> ST 2,0(0,8) MYDATA
>
> See the COBOL Performance Tuning paper at http://www-
> 306.ibm.com/software/awdtools/cobol/library/ for more info on
> the TRUNC
> compiler option, as well as the performance implications of
> using the various
> suboptions of TRUNC.
>
> Rick Arellanes (IBM COBOL Development and Performance)
Thanks. COBOL really confuses me at times. I'm going to double check
what our TRUNC option is. On my 3.4.1 compile, I guess since I used a
literal, I got the code:
LA 5,1(0,0)
A 5,0(0,2) MYDATA
ST 5,0(0,2) MYDATA
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