Michael Smith writes:

>>> "Michael P. Smith" <[log in to unmask]> 01/04/99 02:26pm >>>
I have a user who wants to read some COBOL packed decimal fields in
C.  He
informs me that there are some intrinsics for doing this but that they are
not documented.  The intrinsics that he is interested in are: HPPACCVAD,
HPPACCVBD, and HPPACCVDB.

A search of the WWW finds a document regarding these intrinsics but
they are
quoting a Series 800 manual.  Are these "intrinsics" callable on the
HP/3000?  Under Posix?

The above mentioned link is
http://www.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/doc/man/hpux/HPPACSUBD.3x.html
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The intrinsics you want to use are documented in the Compiler Library
Manual, chapter 4, Packed-Decimal Procedures.  The current manual date
is Oct 1988.  They are callable from all languages.

Mike Berkowitz
Guess? Inc.