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Re: [open-cobol-list] MULTIPLY statement bug ?
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Keisuke Nishida |
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Re: [open-cobol-list] MULTIPLY statement bug ? |
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Tue May 20 05:48:12 2003 |
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Wanderlust/2.10.0 (Venus) SEMI/1.14.3 (Ushinoya) FLIM/1.14.3 (Unebigoryōmae) APEL/10.3 Emacs/21.2 (i386-redhat-linux-gnu) MULE/5.0 (SAKAKI) |
At Tue, 20 May 2003 06:19:41 -0400,
David Essex wrote:
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> There appears to be a bug in the MULTIPLY statement, format 1, COBOL 85
> standard.
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> Format 1 syntax:
> MULTIPLY { identifier-1 | literal-1 } BY ( identifier-n [ROUNDED] )...
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> The value of identifier-1 or literal-1 is multiplied by the value of
> identifier-n, and the product is placed in identifier-n (n > 1).
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> Example 1 (valid):
> MULTIPLY .10 BY IDNUMBER .
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> Example 2 (not-valid):
> MULTIPLY IDNUMBER BY .10 .
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> In example 2, OC version 0.21 for MinGW, did not trap the error.
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> Is this a bug or was the standard changed for COBOL 200x ?
It must be a bug. I'll fix it soon. Thanks.
Keisuke