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Hi Tim,
Status: I began and had to pause a few weeks ago at home.
Basically I wanted to redo what Ferran Pegueroles and I did with TinyCOBOL. But
I'll be glad to let you go along the lines you outlined.
Just one thing related to date functions: the base time in
COBOL is 1st January 1600 AFAICR, while in POSIX (Un*x/GNU/Linux) it is 1rst
January 1970. So ideally, we should take into account the COBOL base time, while
in TC we cheated with the POSIX base time: consequence many tests in the 85 testsuite fail.
Bernard Giroud
Credit Lyonnais (Suisse) SA
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Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 9:12
PM
Subject: [open-cobol-list] What is the
Status of Intrinsic (internal) cobol FUNCTIONs
Hi, Can you tell me the status of
the Intrinsic functions in open-cobol? I know they were being worked on and we
have some code that uses ORD-MIN, ORD-MAX, CURRENT-DATE, INTEGER-OF-DATE (and
a few others). We were considering writing these ourselves if need be but I
dont want to jump the gun if theyre a few weeks or months away and my
implementation of intrinsics would be different than
yours..
Thanks
again
Tim
Nixon
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2004 2:55
PM
Subject: [Maybe Spam] [open-cobol-list]
looking for ideas: more on internals (intrinsics)
We would like to add some of the
internal cobol routines for code were supporting. For example: ORD-MAX,
ORD-MIN, CURRENT-DATE and the like. My initial concept is to write these in c,
and modify the compiler to understand the FUNCTION statement and map it to the
appropriate library routine, It would be important that the compiler could
verify that each was being supplied with the correct # (and type in the general sense) of arguments. The implementation of the intrinsics would match
the standard for size, type etc for both arguments and return values. I also
would like to make the implementation robust in the sense that if we began
with a few routines we could easily add others as needed without modifying
large sections of code. Does anyone have any ideas that would be beneficial
for this project?
Tim Nixon
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