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COBOL — Mapping of short and long

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  • Key: COBOL-3
  • Legacy Issue Number: 19255
  • Status: open  
  • Source: Anonymous
  • Summary:

    The integer ranges given are wrong, correct would be -2^15 to 2^15 -1 and -2^31 to 2^31 -1.
    The COBOL Representation for short should be PIC S9(4) BINARY (which is 2 bytes) and for long PIC S9(10) BINARY (which is 4 bytes).

  • Reported: COBOL 1.0 — Fri, 21 Feb 2014 05:00 GMT
  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:58 GMT