Re: [open-cobol-list] Compiler modifications

[Michel Gouget]

Dear All,

Thank you very much for adding my name on the THANKS file. Unfortunately,
there is a spelling misteak :-) in my name, the correct spelling is
"Gouget".

Roger, being myself a developer, I fully understand your motivations and the
very professional attitude you and others have regarding this great
compiler. So now I am left with 2 choices:
1) Apply my diffs to every new OC release so as to support my customer's
code as-is. It runs fine and the customer is very happy with the results.
2) Modify my customer's code (about 40 READ PREVIOUS (with a changed logic),
600 READ NEXT (with a changed logic), and many many comments), and test and
validate the mods. I won't be paid more for doing that :-(.

I still think that especially the EOF mod (2 lines!!!) could have been
incorporated as a "feature".

I intend to use the "Berkeley DB Concurrent Data Store" to provide at least
a crude form of locking which would be enough for my application. I thought
about implementing that as LOCK MODE AUTOMATIC, for indexed files. In that
case, a read lock is acquired automatically on each record got by READ,
which is released when doing another READ or closing the file. The UNLOCK
statement will do nothing. A WRITE on a locked record waits until the lock
is released. I expect to use the current DB version, which will be ifdefed,
so as to still continue to support DB V1.86. Do you think that those
semantics are compatible with COBOL? Any suggestions before I start?

Cheers,

Michel

-----Original Message-----
From: address@hidden
[mailto:address@hidden On Behalf Of Roger
While
Sent: mardi 6 juin 2006 22:11
To: Michel Gouget
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: [open-cobol-list] Compiler modifications

Follow up to mail
The persons :
Hans-Martin Rasch
   and
Michel Gourget
have been added to the THANKS file.

This is a very positive addition to what
we want to achieve !

I personally thank all people that are
helping this project along.
I know that I should have done a release long
before this date; please excuse; I want a good product.

(Tarball to follow tomorrow, CVs later)

Roger




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