Re: [GnuCOBOL-users] Odd warning message / Problem in Programmer's Guide

[Simon Sobisch]

Hi Leslie,

you have the following order in your CONFIGURATION SECTION

        Source-Computer.
        Object-Computer.
        Repository.
        Special-names.

as far as I know *only* GnuCOBOL will compile this, the others only do
so if the order is correct:

        Source-Computer.
        Object-Computer.
        Special-names.
        Repository.

This is the reason for the warning.

And yes: the Programmer's Guide is wrong in this place.

Am 08.09.2017 um 17:25 schrieb Leslie Turriff:
>       Last night I installed V2.2 and started tinkering with it. I'm getting 
> this 
> warning message, which seems strange to me, as my code matches the layout in 
> the User's Guide and in the Quick Reference.
> 
>       warning: incorrect order of CONFIGURATION SECTION paragraphs used
> 
> It appears after the Input-Output Section statement.  Here is the beginning 
> of 
> my source code file:
> 
>        >>source format is free
>   Identification Division.
> 
>     Program-ID. cute.
> 
>   Environment Division.
> 
>    Configuration Section.
> 
>     Source-Computer.
> 
>       OpenSuSE-Leap-42-3 with Debugging Mode.
> 
>     Object-Computer.
> 
>       Intel-X86-64 character classification is System-Default.
> 
>     Repository.
> 
>       Function all Intrinsic.
> 
>     Special-names.
> 
>       Console                                   is CRT.
>       CRT status                                is cob_CRT_status_info.
>       Cursor                                    is cob_CRT_cursor_position.
> 
>    Input-output Section.
> 
>     File-control.
>       :
> 
> The section and paragraph names seem to be in the correct order.  What might 
> be causing this?
> 
> Leslie
>