[Cobolforgcc-devel] OCCURS (was Redefines

[William M. K. <wm...@ix...>]

Tim,
 For OCCURS are you going to stick (at least initially) to the "strict"
ANSI/ISO rules - which require that an ODO (Occurs Depending On) be the LAST
item in a record - and that they not be nested (or have other OCCURS nested
in them)?

IBM, MERANT, and most "similar" compilers have extensions to "remove these
restrictions" - but what they do about the run-time results can differ
DRAMATICALLY (compare MERANT's ODOSLIDE directive).

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cob...@li...
> [mailto:cob...@li...]On Behalf Of Tim
> Josling
> Sent: Monday, January 01, 2001 2:12 PM
> To: cobolforgcc-devel
> Subject: [Cobolforgcc-devel] Redefines
>
>
> I have uploaded the code and tests for redefines. Apart from
> trivia like filler, the main hard thing left in the data division
> is occurs.
>
> The debugging information is not all coming out. This needs a bit
> more work to find out which magic fields I need to fill in.
>
> Ted Seward is working on sort merge. The basic routines are
> mainly done, with only the basic merge to go - actually the most
> interesting algorithm.
>
>
>
> Tim Josling
>
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