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How is sign stored in a comp-3 field?
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Answer / prashanth
sign will stored as hexadecimal in the last nibble of the
storage
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Answer / nitin
It is stored in the last nibble. For example if your number
is +100, it stores hex 0C in the last byte, hex 1C if your
number is 101, hex 2C if your number is 102, hex 1D if the
number is -101, hex 2D if the number is -102 etc...
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Answer / sai
it is stored in packed decimal formate.and in the form of
hex decimal .
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Answer / meera
When usage is Comp3 the sign is indicated as the rightmost
nibble even S is specified or not. It is in packed decimal
format. Total size is N/2+1
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Answer / hitz
Surya's right most half a byte is correct or Sekhar's left
most half-a-byte? please help to correct this.....
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If the usage class is specified with the comp-3, the numeric
data item stored in packed decimal form, each item will
represent with one byte , the sign will stored in left most
half-a-byte whether the S is specified or not in the picture
cluase.
if any thing wrong let me know....
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