Max Limit for PIC S9(9) USAGE COMP ??

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Max Limit for PIC S9(9) USAGE COMP ??

Post by mavesum » Wed Oct 14, 2009 4:32 pm

could some one pls tell me what would be the max limit that can be stored in a variable defined as PIC S9(9) USAGE COMP

please explain also how you calculated .

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COMP COBOL COMP USAGE

Post by Natarajan » Thu Oct 15, 2009 11:58 am

USAGE COMP occupies the storage as per below info.
COMP usage can have maximum of 8 bytes for internal representation of a variable.

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S9(01) to S9(04) takes 2 bytes for storage  - Half word 
S9(05) to S9(08) takes 4 bytes of storage  - Full Word
S9(09) - S9(18) takes 8 bytes.   - Double word 
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