Re: [Tiny-cobol-users] RECORD CONTAINS 128 CHARACTERS

[David E. <de...@ar...>]

In an effort to test TC in a real world situation, and perhaps as an
exercise in futility, I have debugged the program 'RPIMP06'. I have even
managed to compile it and execute the binary. 

Unfortunately it will probably not run correctly, without modifications,
due to some unsupported COBOL statements by TC.

Here is a summary of some of the problems I have encountered.


1)
SD statement does not currently support 'RECORD CONTAINS nliteral
CHARACTERS'. This is part of COBOL 85 standard.

2)
Converted 'SCREEN SECTION' to TC type. No specifications available in
COBOL 85 standard.

3)
No support for DECLARATIVES. This is part of COBOL 85 standard.

4)
Statement 'ACCEPT var FROM ESCAPE KEY' not available in TC. Not part of
COBOL 85 standard.

5)
Program flow using SECTIONs. Not supported by TC, part of COBOL 85
standard.

6)
No support for 'GO TO L1 ... Ln DEPENDING ON' statement. This is part of
COBOL 85 standard.

7)
No support for 'DISPLAY/ACCEPT ... LINE 22 POSITION 55. Not part of
COBOL 85 standard.

8)
Partial support for SORT related syntax. The following statements will
not parse.
'RETURN filename1 RECORD ...' and 'SORT filename1 ON ...'
This is part of COBOL 85 standard.

9)
The 'EXIT PROGRAM' should only be valid for COBOL sub-programs, not
calling programs. This is part of COBOL 85 standard (I think).


Overall TC did not do to bad considering there are about 800+ lines of
code, and it did manage to create an binary with some program
modifications.

However due to some unsupported or partial statements, it is unlikely
that this program would run properly, using TC, without some major code
modifications.




David