#966 cobc crashes on illegal COBOL source code file

[Elmar Klausmeier]

Attached file will crash cobc version 3.2.0.

The source file is obviously illegal. This file came up when I manually translated a C source to COBOL source and just wanted to check whether my WORKING-STORAGE SECTION was OK so far.

The final message of the compiler is this

unknown (signal)

cobc: aborting compile of cobts2date.cob-crashCompiler at line 70 (PROGRAM-ID: Timestamp2date)
cobc: Please report this!
zsh: segmentation fault (core dumped) cobc cobts2date.cob-crashCompiler

[Vincent (Bryan) Coen]

It is bomming when reading non Cobol data such as your C code.

Put that in a differenet code block that is called by the main program or in a different source file that is added to the cobc steering lines.

i.e., cobc -x -FIXED cobol-test1.cbl c-test1.c

[Simon Sobisch]

Thank you for this report.
This is a variant of [bugs:#933] (only triggering because of the parenthesis) and now fixed with [r5247].