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Local Form and Behavior

For IBM S/370 machines, local form is a 64-bit long floating point value, and the component must be at least 8 bytes in length. Truncation is not allowed. If the component has a fixed length greater than 8 bytes, the value is left aligned and padded on the right with zero bytes.