[open-cobol-list] Re: Cobol

[Roger While]

Note that you do not need the "-fstatic-call" under
Linux/UNIX/Cygwin.
I will take a look at implementing "SYSTEM"
(upper-case).

Roger

Sergey wrote :
> Don't see any problems to use "system" this way,
>  or to write intermediate Cobol program
>  (but note the"-fstatic-call" and 0-terminated string).
>
>        IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.
>        PROGRAM-ID. zrun7.
>        ENVIRONMENT DIVISION.
>        DATA DIVISION.
>        WORKING-STORAGE SECTION.
>        01 WS-C-CALL.
>            05 WS-CCALL PIC X(27) VALUE "cmd.exe".
>            05 FILLER PIC X VALUE LOW-VALUE.
>        PROCEDURE DIVISION.
>            DISPLAY " Before.".
>            CALL "system" USING WS-C-CALL.
>            DISPLAY " After.".
>            GOBACK.
>
> G:\skatests\cobol>cobc -x -fstatic-call zrun7.cbl