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  3. July 2002

Re: Ugh.

From: Winchester Terry <terry.winchester@raymondcorp.com>
> > -- COMPASBIN -- will provide the necessary overrides so that the AS400
> > treats the programs the same as MVS/VSE with respect to COMP.
> >

I'm hijacking this reply to report that even the ILE compiler
still converts binary to packed internally.

     9     000900 77 BIN PIC S9(9) BINARY.
   12     001300     ADD 1 TO BIN

compiles to (W-code)

SBDY   12
LOD1
CVSBPD   <== convert binary to packed
LOD1
ADDP       <== add packed
SHFD
CVPDSB  <== convert packed to binary
STR1

this was compiled with standard options.

Now try COMPASBIN:

  STMT PL SEQNBR -A 1 B..+....2....+....3....+
           000100 PROCESS COMPASBIN
     1     000200 IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.

*        MSGID: LNC0026  SEVERITY: 10  SEQNBR:  000100
         Message . . . . :   Option expected, 'COMPASBIN' found. 'COMPASBIN'
           ignored.

what did I do wrong here?

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