NATIVE-FLOATING-POINT

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

Note: This directive is supported for native COBOL only.

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.

For equivalent functionality for .NET COBOL, see MAINFRAME-FLOATING-POINT.