RE: [open-cobol-list] OC runtime enhancement needed

[Bill Klein]

The best (IMHO) solution to this is to look at "common exception handling"
introduced in the '02 Standard.   

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> Behalf Of Sergey Kashyrin
> Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 5:56 PM
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> Subject: [open-cobol-list] OC runtime enhancement needed
> 
> Hi,
> 
> There are couple of things which usually needed for me from 
> Cobol (or OS) to build our system in a more reliable way.
> The first thing of course is an errors/exceptions handling
> 
> Microfocus Cobol (on all platforms), as well as Fujitsu on 
> Win32 are providing some additional functions:
> CBL_ERROR_PROC allow to install (or remove) your "Cobol error 
> handler" which can be written in C/C++
> CBL_EXIT_PROC allow to install/remove "Cobol EXIT handler" 
> which usually not necessary for me but in the case of Fujitsu on UNIX 
> where they missed CBL_ERROR_PROC.
> 
> Other platforms have their own ways to install handlers -
>      CEEHDLR on mainframe,
>     #pragma exception_handler on AS400
> 
> On unix of course I'm catching signals, but in the case of 
> OC, OC runtime is doing that, so it might bring the conflict 
> between OC 
> handler and my own.
> 
> Other than that, in MFocus the handler installed via 
> CBL_ERROR_PROC is getting the full Cobol runtime error 
> message as a string,
> so it can write that to the log or do some analysis and 
> possible "longjmp" (MFocus even has coblongjmp)
> 
> What do you think, is it a good idea to implement those 2 
> functions (or at least CBL_ERROR_PROC) ?
> It is not a big deal to do, so I'm thinking to do that anyway.
> 
> Any alternative ideas ?
> 
> Regards,
> Sergey
> 
> 
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