COMP field occupy ?

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COMP field occupy ?..

Answer / anil prajapati

internally it will store space like as
s9(n) comp where n is as
0-4 --->2 bytes
5-9 --->4 bytes
10-18 ---> 8 bytes

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COMP field occupy ?..

Answer / prakash shrivastava

comp is a binary storage format.....

0-4 2 bytes-1/2 word



comp is binary storage format...

it occupy--
0-4 2 bytes-1/2 word
5-9 4 bytes-1 word
10-18 8 bytes-2 word

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