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2000-12-19
Hi
I am new to this group but would like to thank everybody for the work they have done developing a cobol compiler for linux. I downloaded 0.4 and installed it and successfully compiled and run the test suite of programs. I then copied some of my own programs, written for RM/Cobol for dos, over to my linux dox and set about compiling them. This was easy and there was only a couple of small syntax differences to fix up and make the programs compile.
However when I ran them I ran into a problem. All I could get was a core dump. After a bit of editing and playing around I revisited the test programs and found that you have only ever used one indexed file per program, my problem was that I had up to 4 and 5 indexed dynamic access files per program. When I wrote a test program with only one of my files in it the program compiled and run OK, as soon as I added another indexed file I would get a core dump. Programs that have more than 1 sequential file are OK.
Can you tell me, have I done something wrong in my installation of tinycobol, or is this a limitation of the compiler.
regards
Kerry Hotker
kerry@albanyis.com.au
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Hi
I am new to this group but would like to thank everybody for the work they have done developing a cobol compiler for linux. I downloaded 0.4 and installed it and successfully compiled and run the test suite of programs. I then copied some of my own programs, written for RM/Cobol for dos, over to my linux dox and set about compiling them. This was easy and there was only a couple of small syntax differences to fix up and make the programs compile.
However when I ran them I ran into a problem. All I could get was a core dump. After a bit of editing and playing around I revisited the test programs and found that you have only ever used one indexed file per program, my problem was that I had up to 4 and 5 indexed dynamic access files per program. When I wrote a test program with only one of my files in it the program compiled and run OK, as soon as I added another indexed file I would get a core dump. Programs that have more than 1 sequential file are OK.
Can you tell me, have I done something wrong in my installation of tinycobol, or is this a limitation of the compiler.
regards
Kerry Hotker
kerry@albanyis.com.au