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Slack bytes and data alignment
Hi Wer, Suppose we have coded like this 01 GROUP-LEVEL. 05 3-BYTE-STRING PIC X(03). 05 FULL-WORD-BINARY PIC 9(09) COMP SYNC. Then as you said the compiler inorder to align the data in the fulloword address, will insert a slack byte of i byte between 3-BYTE-STRING and...- rgkannan
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Slack bytes and data alignment
What is slack bytes How is the data aligned in cobol language?- rgkannan
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