Re: [GnuCOBOL-users] C coding practices

[James K. Lowden]

On Thu, 7 Mar 2019 13:03:38 -0800
Ron Norman <address@hidden> wrote:

> making such massive changes before the code merge happens would create
> a problem getting the merge completed.

Agreed.  

> Its not a good idea for the code to assume the character set used is
> ASCII as in rare cases, it could be EBCDIC.

I'm not sure what that implies about 

        *p < ' '

> Likewise, assuming a 32/64 bit platform may not be good either, as
> Unisys 2200 and Honeywell 6000 systems have 36/72 bit words...

Do we compile on such machines?  

There are definitely byte-swapping macros that depend on 32/64 bit
integers.  

--jkl