Re: [Cobolforgcc-devel] IF half done

[Tim J. <te...@me...>]

Bill,
Thanks. It is in the todo list. 
Tim Josling

"William M. Klein" wrote:
> 
> 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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