RE: [open-cobol-list] Re: Redefines question

[Roger While]

Now thoroughly confused.
Here's 13.16.42.3 on page 337 - point 1 :
1) Storage association for the subject of the entry starts at the first bit 
of the data item referenced by data-name-2
and continues over an area sufficient to contain the number of bits 
required by the data item referenced by the
subject of the entry. If the subject of the entry requires more bits than 
the data item referenced by data-name-2,
the storage area allocated for the data item referenced by data-name-2 and 
the subject of the entry is the
number of bits required by the data item referenced by the subject of the 
entry. The size used for references
to the data item referenced by data-name-2 is not changed.

Hmmm.
Clarification ?

Roger


> OK,
>   I have now found the actual '02 Standard rule.
>
> Page 336, SR(9),
>
> "9) The storage area required for the subject of the entry shall not be
> larger than the storage area required for the data item referenced by
> data-name-2, unless the data item referenced by data-name-2 has been
> specified with level number 1 and without the EXTERNAL clause."
>
> In other words, you can do a redefines of a smaller by a larger - but ONLY
> when they are 01-levels (not EXTERNAL).  In other words, you need to 
> figure
> out the "maximum" storage allowed for all 01-levels; allocate that; and 
> then
> do the redefines.
>
>   ***
>
> My other notes were thinking about subordinate items - where this is (was)
> non-conforming.