Re: HLASM Floating Point Field - Remainder?

On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 01:55:05 +0000 (UTC) poitras@xxxxxxxxx (Don Poitras)
wrote:

:>Barry Schwarz <schwarzb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

:>> In my admittedly limited experience (and I don't use VM at all), I
:>> have never seen a product intended for the mainframe express time in
:>> floating point. Are you sure you have the right fields and formats?

:>SAS/C defines time_t (used in many timing functions) as a double.

A clock value is 64 bits (not all of them) but is not floating point.

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