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

[Roger While]

> 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?

Yes.


>  And what
> about comp fields, say pic s9(3) comp?

That depends on the "-std=" option.
Look at config/default.conf and search for
binary-size
There is a description of allocations.
Then check if a particular xxx.conf overrides the default.

Roger