February this year, in the Archives, "COBOL Code Gened for MOVE COMP-3 S9(9) to S9(8)"
Or just search for "negative zero COBOL" I guess. I would imagine it fair to say that a numeric field is tested more often than it is set. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
