Re: [Tiny-cobol-users] Calling Programs

[David E. <de...@us...>]

Jim Morcombe wrote:

> I have a program that compiles when I have the following:
> CALL "SCN-ERROR" USING ERROR-LINES.
> 
> However, if I change it to be
> 
> 01  PROG       PIC X(10)       VALUE "SCN-ERROR".
> CALL PROG USING ERROR-LINES.
> 
> Then I get a Segmentation error during the compile.

The valid values in a program-id are implementation defined.

With TC, a '-' (dash) can't be used in a program-id, as both C and GNU 
assembler will not support it.

Unfortunately the CALL statement error trapping needs improvement, both 
at compile time and run-time.