There are likely thousands of such situations in the data areas books, all
related to the fact that the data areas books are generated by tooling based on
the assembler source which has defined these (and similar) fields as "F" (and
similarly for a halfword that is "H") which are, by assembler d
It's clear enough; maybe too clear.
But, the last sentence isn't correct; the lower half of a binary field is
neither signed nor unsigned (although I presume you meant "regarded as
unsigned"), it's just a broken-off piece with no meaning at all. Special
case of the absolute value being less than
In a Data Areas manual for CVT, I find:
...
LEAP SECOND
80 (50)DBL WORD 8 CVTLSO(0) OFFSET
IN TOD FORMAT
80 (50)SIGNED4 CVTLSOHHIGH WORD
84 (54)SIGNED4 CVTLSOLLOW WORD
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