[open-cobol-list] Size of comp-3 (packed) fields.

[John R. Culleton]

On bigger computers and compilers one can assume that a field
like
pic s9(7)v99 comp-3

will occupy 5 bytes, in other words the number of digits plus one
for the sign, rounded up to an even number and divided by 2 will
give the bytes required. Is this true however of OC? And what
about comp fields, say pic s9(3) comp?

I want to put my detailed fiile description in working storage,
and then just use
   01 filrec.
      05 filler pic x(??).

for the fd.   

But I need to count the ?? accurately. 
-- 
John Culleton
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