Answer Posted / naveen kumar.s

The value assigned to comp variable is stored in binary
format.The memeory allocation is also different.
For example,
77 A pic 9(8).
77 B Pic 9(8) comp.

Here,'A' occupies 8 bytes.whereas,'B' occupies 4 bytes only.

No.of Digits Bytes occupied

1-5 2
5-11 4
12-18 8

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