RE: [Tiny-cobol-users] Runtime Move Routine questions

[Glen C. <gco...@US...>]

Jim,
  All is a special case.  It should move repeating copies of the source to
the target.  This does not happen if the ALL modifier is not used.

  Just a note.  The decimal point can be either to the left or to the right
of significant digits.

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    Sent: Monday, December 06, 1999 9:06 AM
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    Subject: [Tiny-cobol-users] Runtime Move Routine questions


    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