COMP vs COMP‑3 arithmetic surprises
Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2025 2:59 pm
Seeing different rounding/precision between COMP and COMP‑3. How do you choose types to avoid bugs? Thanks in advance for sharing your thoughts.
read the manual and/or search for "differences between COBOL COMP COMP3"
hint ...
COMP binary numbers
COMP3 packed decimal numbers
topic moved where it belongs ... the COBOL and friends section