[Tiny-cobol-users] Runtime Move Routine questions

[Noeth, J. <jm...@ag...>]

I am currently working on the run time routines that perform move related
functions. I have run into a few situations that I would like input on.

It appears that the decimals field of the fld_desc structure is being used
as a boolean value to indicate whether or not there are digits to the right
of the decimal point. If this field contained the number of digits to the
right of the decimal point instead and an indicator was added to the
structure as to whether or not this was a signed field, the runtime routines
could be made much more efficient, as they would not have to decode the
picture clause, except for editted fields. 

The 'all' field of the fld_desc structure (which is documented in the info
section as occurs) is used to signify that the data associated with the
field, when moved to another field will be repeated until the length of the
receiving field is satisfied. Which definition is correct, or do we need
both?

How do we want to handle run time errors, such as moving non numeric data
into a numeric field?

Thanks, 
Jim Noeth