RE: [open-cobol-list] CVS update + 2

[Bill Klein]

Just out of curiosity, did you look at the ISO 2002 
    External as "literal"
syntax?  It would seem to me that this may be a useful feature for mixed
COBOL / C applications (as COBOL is case-INSENSITIVE - and doesn't allow
special characters such as underscore as the first character) for external
data item names.  With the 
   as "literal"
phrase, one could (I think) provide better support for cross-program (cross
language) external data.

This same phrase can be used on the Program-ID paragraph for non-COBOL type
program names.

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Also, does your current EXTERNAL support work with code such as

   FD  Not-External.
   01  IS-External  External   Pic X(100).

This has several different rules than the similar code

   FD  File-Is-External   External.
   01  So-is-record-area   PIC X(100).  

> -----Original Message-----
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> Behalf Of Roger While
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> Subject: [open-cobol-list] CVS update + 2
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> CVS updated :
> I have redone processing of EXTERNAL items.
> Instead of allocating a character array for these, we
> now allocate a character pointer. At program initialization
> this is set by a call to a new libcob routine "cob_external_addr".
> This looks up the pointer name in a cache and if found returns
> the previously dynamically allocated area. If not, it is allocated
> and cached. Also lengths are checked. eg.
> prog1 -  XYZ PIC X(4) EXTERNAL
> prog2 - XYZ PIC X(5) EXTERNAL
> 
> prog1 is loaded before prog2.
> This gives a runtime error.
> (Hm, methinks we should check field type as well)
> 
> For Cygwin and Mingw, "cobcrun" is linked with the shared library.
> 
> On current Cygwin 1.5.12-1, Open Cobol now passes all tests
> and cobcrun is functional  :-)
> 
> Roger 
> 
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