RE: [Cobolforgcc-devel] IF half done

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

Tim,
  I FULLY understand doing "conforming" support first, but I thought I would
point you to some documentation on some IBM extensions for compound IF
statements (and some differences
  - between OS/VS COBOL and newer COBOLs
  - between '68 and '74 Standard COBOL.

Look at:

  http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/IGYMG202/4.1.7

and go down to the sections:

	Combined abbreviated relation condition changes

and

	IF...OTHERWISE statement changes

and

	Numeric class test on group items

and also look at:
 http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/IGYMG202/4.1.6

and go down to

	Abbreviated combined relation conditions and use of parentheses

and

	Comparing group to numeric packed-decimal item

***

Some of these are in PRETTY common use among IBM COBOL programmers (and
compiler vendors who implement "compatibility" for IBM such as CA-Realia and
Micro Focus (MERANT).

NONE of them should be "higher priority" than the conforming stuff, but I
did want to at least alert you to this stuff.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cob...@li...
> [mailto:cob...@li...]On Behalf Of Tim
> Josling
> Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2001 10:17 PM
> To: cobolforgcc-devel
> Subject: [Cobolforgcc-devel] IF half done
>
>
> I have uploaded the changes so far to support IF (incomplete),
> and I also reformatted the code to meet the gcc coding standards
> - Kiesuke poitned out some divergences.
> Tim Josling
>
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