COMP-5

Specifies whether the sign is to be dropped when a value is stored in an unsigned COMP-5 data item.

Syntax:
>>-.---.--COMP-5--"integer"----------------><
   +-/-+
Parameters:
integer Must be one of:
1 Behavior as in earlier versions of this Compiler. The sign is dropped.
2 The sign is not dropped. Negative numbers are stored in two's complement form, so that, except for their byte-order being machine dependent, unsigned COMP-5 items behave like COMP-X. This results in highly efficient arithmetic on unsigned COMP-5 items.
Properties:
Default: COMP-5"2"
Phase: Syntax check
$SET: Initial
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