1 OPTION The OPTION statement allows you to set compilation qualifiers such as default data type, size, severity checking, constant type checking, subscript checking, overflow checking, decimal rounding, setup, and scale factor in a source program. The defaults set affect only the program module in which the OPTION statement occurs. The OPTION statement must precede all other source code in a program module with the exception of comment fields, REM, SUB, FUNCTION, and other OPTION statements. Example OPTION TYPE = REAL, & SIZE = (REAL DOUBLE, INTEGER WORD), & INACTIVE INTEGER OVERFLOW, & SCALE = 4 2 Syntax OPTION option-clause,... option-clause: { ANGLE = angle-clause } { HANDLE = handle-clause } { CONSTANT TYPE = constant-type clause } { OLD VERSION = CDD } { TYPE = type-clause } { SIZE = size-clause } { SCALE = int-const } { { ACTIVE } } { { INACTIVE } = active-clause } angle-clause: { DEGREES } { RADIANS } handle-clause: { BASIC } { SEVERE } { ERROR } { WARNING } { INFORMATIONAL } constant-type-clause: { REAL } { INTEGER } { DECIMAL(d,s) } type-clause: { INTEGER } { REAL } { EXPLICIT } { DECIMAL } size-clause: { size-item } { (size-item,...) } size-item: { INTEGER int-clause } { REAL real-clause } { DECIMAL (d,s) } int-clause: { BYTE } { WORD } { LONG } { QUAD } real-clause: { SINGLE } { DOUBLE } { GFLOAT } { SFLOAT } { TFLOAT } { XFLOAT } active-clause: { active-item } { (active-item,...) } active-item: { INTEGER OVERFLOW } { DECIMAL OVERFLOW } { SET } { DECIMAL ROUNDING } { SUBSCRIPT CHECKING }