In the unlikely event that IBM ever decides to make it's PL/I compiler
available again for Windoze or Linux, and you need a test to run programs
on those systems in addition to running them on z/OS, the following
declares will automagically give you two flags to test for the endianness
and ASCII(UTF-8)/EBCDIC:
2 * union,
3 * fixed bin (31) init (-2147483648),
3 is_big_endian bit (1) aligned,
2 * union,
3 * char (4) init ('0000'),
3 is_ebcdic bit (1) aligned,
And the char 4 is just to keep everything nicely double-word aligned.
Rober
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Robert AH Prins
robert(a)prino(d)org
The hitchhiking grandfather <https://prino.neocities.org/index.html>
Some REXX code for use on z/OS
<https://prino.neocities.org/zOS/zOS-Tools.html>
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