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From: bzs@WORLD.STD.COM (Barry Shein)
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Subject: C's sins of commission (was: (pssst...fortran?))
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Date: 21 Sep 90 17:08:41 GMT
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Probably an unnecessary correction but...

>	declare array fixed bin(31);
>
>declared a 32-bit integer array (you always omitted the sign bit if
>there was one, strange.)

Should have been something like:

	declare array(MAXARRAY) fixed bin(31);

or thereabouts. My PL/I is rusty, but it ain't that rusty...

	DCL FOO(MAXFOO) FIXED BIN(31) CONTIGUOUS BASED (THING);

heh heh.

        -Barry Shein

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