A GCC COBOL status report

Posted Feb 13, 2023 14:48 UTC (Mon) by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
In reply to: A GCC COBOL status report by pbonzini
Parent article: A GCC COBOL status report

> COBOL compilers were probably the only real-world users of the AAA/AAS/DAA/DAS instructions on the x86!

Dunno ... Certainly the INFORMATION variant of DataBASIC used BCD. Okay, that ran on 50-series hardware, but when it was ported to x86 as PI/Open, it may well have made use of those instructions (or not, as the case may be ...)

Cheers,
Wol