On Thu, 16 Jun 2022 14:36:12 +0000 "Schmitt, Michael"
<[email protected]> wrote:

:>My company's COBOL coding standards are* to define binary fields as signed 
(e.g. PIC S9(4) BINARY). I'm wondering why that's the standard.

Because it takes extra instructions to get the absolute value.

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Binyamin Dissen <[email protected]>
http://www.dissensoftware.com

Director, Dissen Software, Bar & Grill - Israel

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