Re: [Tiny-cobol-users] global/external files?

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

Kevin Monceaux wrote:

 > Does TinyCobol have the ability to share files between
 > a main program and called subprograms such that the files
 > can be opened by the main program and all called subprograms
 > can access the files?
 > I just downloaded the latest release of TinyCobol.
 > If I try to code an FD entry such as:
 >
 > FD  LOGFILE IS EXTERNAL
 >    LABEL RECORDS ARE STANDARD.
 >    01  LOGFILE-REC         PIC X(80).
 >
 > when I try to compile the program htcobol segfaults.
 > If I remove the "IS EXTERNAL" it compiles without errors.

Since it seg-faults, this is a bug.

I did not work on this portion of the compiler, so I do not know if the 
'EXTERNAL' file clause was ever fully implimented.

This has been a problem since version 0.55, or prior.
So it is not specific to version 0.63.