Re: Floating Point Question -- MIDRANGE-L

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Nelson,

why not z-add it to a fixed point?

On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, Nelson C. Smith wrote:

> I have a procedure that substrings bytes out of file records based on field 
>types, sizes, location, etc defined in the system catalog.  The target of the 
>substring is a char field, of course.  With other fields, I can do a movel 
>into the proper data type, but Floating point is not allowed on the movel 
>opcode. How can I get the data in the alpha field into a floating point field? 
>Is there any way to "cast" the subst results into something other than an 
>alpha field?
> 
> 
> 

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