@type-descriptor.platform-compiler-info

This tag provides information about type level default data attribute settings.

Attributes

The following table lists the valid attributes for this tag:
Attribute Description Valid Values
language The programming language from which the class originated You must specify one of the following attributes:
  • COBOL: The COBOL programming language
  • C: The C programming language
defaultBigEndian The default indicator whether a number is big or little endian You must specify one of the following attributes:
  • true: when the byte representation of a number is ordered from the most significant byte to the least significant byte
  • false: when the byte representation of a number is ordered from the least significant byte to most significant byte
defaultCodepage The default code page of string data  
defaultExternalDecimalSign The default type of external decimal data You must specify one of the following attributes:
  • ebcdic: Codepage is Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Format (EBCDIC
  • ebcdicCustom: Allows DFHCNV macros to be used to convert external decimal data types, and then corrects the codepoint which contains the sign bit
  • ascii : Codepage is American Standard Coded Information Interchange format (ascii).
defaultFloatType The default type of floating point data You must specify one of the following attributes:
  • unspecified: The default float type is not specified.
  • ieeeExtendedIntel: The representation of 128 bit floating point data is as defined by the Intel™ architecture double extended-precision format
  • ieeeExtendedAIX : The representation of 128 bit floating point data is as defined by the IBM® AIX® architecture
  • ieeeExtendedOS390 : The representation of floating point data is as defined in the IBM System/390® Priniciples of Operation as IEEE Quadrupule-Precision (BFP).
  • ieeeExtendedAS400 : The representation of floating point data is as defined by the IBM AS/400® architecture as IEEE Quadrupule-Precision
  • ieeeNonExtended : The representation of floating point data is as defined by the IEEE standard 754
  • ibm390Hex: The representation of floating point data is as defined in the IBM System/390 Priniciples of Operation as IBM Hexadecimal Format (HFP).
  • ibm400Hex: The representation of floating point data is as defined by the IBM AS/400 architecture as IBM Hexadecimal Format
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