[Tiny-cobol-users] Indexes in Linkage

[Chris <cbo...@mi...>]

First of all, I'd like to point out a feature of Cobol that most other
languages aren't good at - storage handling.
Take a look at this Linkage Section:
       LINKAGE SECTION.
       01  LnkWAtkTab SYNC.
           05  LnkWAtkRec OCCURS 20 TIMES INDEXED BY WAR-Idx.
               10  LnkCritMinRoll OCCURS 5 TIMES INDEXED BY CMR-Idx.
                               PIC 999 COMP.
               10  LnkDiv      PIC 99  COMP.
               10  LnkCritTyp  PIC XXX.

The sync is necessary so C knows where a structure begins - on a word or
half-word boundary.  Without it the call returns gibberish.  If it were
Cobol calling this module the sync wouldn't be necessary!

Here's the problem: where are the indexes' storage placed?  I've got
stuctures in C that don't include them:

typedef struct {
 char WCd[2];
	int	 CritMinRoll[5];
	int	 Div;
	char	CritTyp[3];
} WAtkTab;

WAtkTab	Weapon[20];