Re: how to create unsigned hexadecimal initial value

["Leif Svalgaard" <leif@xxxxxxxx>]

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From: <rjd@us.ibm.com>
To: <MI400@midrange.com>
Sent: Friday, August 25, 2000 9:50 AM
Subject: Re: how to create unsigned hexadecimal initial value


> Leif and others,
>
> Here's (my) better definition for H literals, which I think explains the
> results seen in all of the examples brought forward so far.  I honestly
> don't know if the PRM actually implements this definition, but it seems to.

your very ingenious definition is just squirming. Why not simply accept
that there is a bug (I have).

DCL DD XX CHAR(2)
CPYBLA XX,H'1234';  /* WRONG */

yields  result   3400.

Leif

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