SIGN-FIXUP

Provides limited emulation of mainframe compiler options NUMPROC(NOPFD) and NUMPROC(PFD) for MOVE and COMPARE statements.

Attention: This directive can adversely affect the performance of generated code.

Syntax:

 >>-.---.-.----.--SIGN-FIXUP------------------><  
    +-/-+ +-NO-+

Parameters:

None

Properties:

Default:	NOSIGN-FIXUP
Phase:	Syntax check
$SET:	Initial

Comments:

The effect of this directive is as follows:

SIGN-FIXUP provides a limited emulation of the mainframe compiler option NUMPROC(NOPFD) when using the HOST-NUMCOMPARE and HOST-NUMMOVE directives. It is not possible to provide a complete emulation of NUMPROC(NOPFD) behavior.
NOSIGN-FIXUP provides emulation of the mainframe compiler option NUMPROC(PFD) when using the HOST-NUMCOMPARE and HOST-NUMMOVE directives.

SIGN-FIXUP is only supported for SIGN settings of ASCII, MF, EBCDIC, and IBM.

For managed COBOL, SIGN"EBCDIC", along with one of HOST-NUMMOVE, HOST-NUMCOMPARE or SIGN-FIXUP is an invalid combination of directives, and is rejected during compilation. For native COBOL, the combination is permitted.