Re: Assembler Macros

Andy Wood wrote:
> "Sven Pran" <no.direct@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
[snip]
> Not so strict about that when it comes to the TIME macro. As John
> pointed out, the date returned for TIME DEC was do***ented as having
> the high order byte zero (I have an old manual to prove that). In the
> late 1980's they made the mistake of putting the "century code" in
> that byte. Although the century code was zero when they did this, it
> was a timebomb waiting to go off. (E.G. PN50632/ PN72740 PL/I DATE
> function returning rubbish for year.)
> 
> 
> Andy Wood
> woodag@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 was more like the mid-80s, if I remember correctly.  In any 
event, PL/I had 10+ years to fix their code.