[Tiny-cobol-users] Segmentation fault

[Jim M. <ro...@vi...>]

I have attached a Cobol program that crashes the compiler with a 
segmentation fault.

Here is the output
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We are about to compile : jimtest

/home/jim/bin/int: line 52:  2524 Segmentation fault      htcobol -c -g 
-C -D -F -P -I $COBCPY -I $IO $PROG.cbl
Woops! The compiler returned error : 139
[jim@byrlin3 work]$

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I'm sorry I couldn't give you a shorter example, but the error 
disappears every time I delete a few lines of code.

The error seems so flaky that I won't be surprised if you can't 
reproduce it.

Our programing standards state that we shouldn't use "SECTIONS" in the 
PROCEDURE DIVISION, so I have little experience with the effects of 
SECTIONS.

If I change the "MAINLINE SECTION" statement on line 212 to be just 
"MAINLINE" then the error goes away.

Alternatively,

If I move line 211 to line 213 the error also goes away.  That is, when 
I move the statement PERFORM GET-DATABASE-TYPE. to be after the 
"MAINLINE SECTION" the error goes away.

Alternatively,
if I comment out line 254 -   DISPLAY "SEARCH-ACCOUNT = " 
SEARCH-ACCOUNT. Then the error disappears.

Alternatively,
If I just delete apparently random lines of code, the error disappears.

Jim