Re: [open-cobol-list] New on the list and some questions ..

[Giroud, Bernard]

Lars Segerlund a écrit :

> Hi I'm new on the opencobol list, and thought that I should present myself.
>
> I have been doing a little gcc hacking, ( frontend ), but not much, and now I 
> am interested in COBOL.
> Basicly I thought I'd have a look at the code and follow the list for a while 
> to see if there is anything that I can do.
>
> I have basicly two questions, the first is openCOBOL aiming for gcc inclusion ? 
>  and secondly what is the current status of open COBOL ( ie. is it usable for a 
> project right now ? ).
>  
Depends on what you mean by gcc inclusion. Keisuke created a version 
called gcc-cobol which was based on gcc 3.3 and OC 0.12.
One of my goal is to upgrade gcc-cobol (renaming it Gobol as per a 
suggestion of Mark Hahn) to the latest gcc release and the current 
run-time of OC. At that point, we have two options:
1a) try to make it the "official GNU Cobol" project ==> chasing all 
copyleft if at all possible (I'll talk about that aspect in another 
thread in a few days)
1b) leave it outside the GCC, as an add-on (as it is currently).
2) We maintain only one run-time, but two compilers OC and Gobol (I 
think there is a need for both)

The ideal, would be that TinyCOBOL changes towards the cleaner run-time 
interface, and then we could merge the two run-times (we can always dream).
I started such a move a long time ago, but I had to abandon because of 
too may concurrent changes.

But, in any case, I'll be glad to welcome somebody who has experience 
with GCC, specially front-end.

> Now there seem's to be a third question that pop's up, is there any 
> relationship or collaboration between cobol for gcc and openCOBOL ?
>
>  
There was a tentative made in summer 2003 (AFAIR) between Keisuke and Tim; I'll 
let them comment themselves on the subject. But, currently, no.

> / regards, Lars Segerlund.
>
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Bernard Giroud
Open Source COBOL Tools Developer