COBOL and VA Smalltalk class equivalents
COBOL USAGE statements and their VA Smalltalk equivalents are listed as follows:
COBOL USAGE
RecordStructure class
BINARY, COMP, COMP-4
AbtCOBOLBinaryField
COMP-X
AbtCOBOLCOMPXField
COMP-5
AbtCOBOLCOMP5Field (Storage of field is processor specific. VA Smalltalk stores fields as reverse-order COMP fields.)
COMP-1
AbtCOBOLCOMP1Field
DISPLAY (alphanumeric PIC clause)
AbtCOBOLDisplayField
DISPLAY (numeric PIC clause)
AbtCOBOLNumericDisplayField
Packed Decimal, COMP-3
AbtCOBOLPackedDecimalField
Pointer, Procedure-Pointer, COMP-0
AbtCOBOLPointerField
COMP-2
AbtCOBOLDoubleField
Last modified date: 01/29/2015