Frank, all I saw some of the floating point usage type names used in a COBOL standard proposed draft online during the development. I added the types for IBM specific HFP type names which are IBM specific as opposed to international BFP or DFP standards based. The type names used could be easily changed in the zcobol open source once there was agreement on how to define all nine specific floating point formats implemented in IBM hardware which I think would be a requirement for the IBM version of COBOL if it is to be used to process data from other programs that support any of the 9 floating point types.
But my only intent in posting response about the zcobol floating point support was to provide an example of what that support might look like. zcobol is still an unfinished open source project with many other standard COBOL features still missing, and I have fully retired from the zcobol and z390 development effort as of last year. Don Higgins d...@higgins.net www.don-higgins.net ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
