[open-cobol-list] CVS Update 20051223 - Read !

[Roger While]

CVS Updated

*** NOTE - WARNING ***
The default format for variable length sequential files
has changed !!!

Here is the relevant part from README  for "configure":
  --with-varseq=<n>
     Define the format for variable length sequential
     files. For these files, 4 bytes are written
     preceeding each record. The format of these 4
     bytes for values of <n> is as follows :
     n = 0 (default)
         The first 2 bytes are the record length
         in big-endian order. This is compatible
         with mainframe. Bytes 3 and 4 are set
         to binary 0.
     n = 1
          The 4 bytes are the record length in
          big-endian order.
     n = 2
          The 4 bytes are the record length in
          native machine order (int).
          (This was previously the default)

This change goes back to a request from David Korn
that I agree with.

NOTE - This does NOT apply to INDEX-SEQUENTIAL files
nor LINE SEQUENTIAL files ( obviously :-)  )


Use "bsearch" for table lookup in compiler.
This allows us to define tables in read-only section.

Move certain routines from termio.c to common.c
This allows us to define certain things as static.

Further cleanup's to remove not used code.

Snapshot tarball at (one guess) :
http://www.sim-basis.de/open-cobol-0.33.tar.gz

Roger