NATIVE-FLOATING-POINT

Restriction: This directive is supported in native COBOL only.

Determines whether a program's floating point data items are to use IBM hexadecimal format.

Syntax:
 >>-.---.-.----.--NATIVE-FLOATING-POINT-----><  
    .-/-+ .-NO-+
Parameters:

None

Properties:
Default: NONATIVE-FLOATING-POINT
Phase: Syntax check
$SET: Initial
Comments:

Specifying NATIVE-FLOATING-POINT causes all floating point data items to use IEEE. Specifying NONATIVE-FLOATING-POINT causes the format used to be determined by the MAINFRAME_FLOATING_POINT environment variable.

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