[Tiny-cobol-users] Using different BDB versions (was: TinyCOBOL and Open COBOL)

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

John R. Culleton wrote:

 > ...
> Just for fun I took an indexed sequential file created 
 > in TinyCOBOL and read it sequentially in a program
 > compiled with OpenCobol.
 > It ran without incident.
 > ...

There are incompatibilities between versions of BDB.

For example, if you try to read/write to file created using BDB version 
2.x or 3.x using a program compiled with BDB 1.x, it will likely not 
work properly.

TC uses the BDB 1.85 API, regardless of what version of is BDB used, 
while OC does not use the BDB 1.85 API.

I'm surprised that the above example worked, even if you you used the 
same version of BDB with both OC and TC.

Anyway, something to consider when using BDB.