Michale asks:

> 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?


<plug>
CSEQ [2.4] - LPS Toolbox [A.04a]            (c) 1995 Lund Performance Solutions

Procedure HPPACCVAD (
   addr1        : anyvar record  ;        {R26, @32 ->  8}
   len1         :        int32   ;        {R25}
   addr2        : anyvar record  ;        {R24, @32 ->  8}
   len2         :        int32   ;        {R23}
   Parm_5       : var    int32   ;        {SP-$0034} := nil, align 32}
   Parm_6       : var    int32   )        {SP-$0038} := nil, align 32}
   {Contact HP for documentation                                       }
</plug>

Looks like they're on MPE/iX.

Sure...call them from C under POSIX, if you want.  Just get the calling
sequence correct (#pragma intrinsic for HP C, <correct-definition> for
gcc)

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