tiny-cobol-users

[Tiny-cobol-users] Bug fix for numeric edited types MOVEs

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

David Essex wrote:
...
> Yes, there is a bug with the MOVE verb of numeric edited types.

OK, fixed.
Fix is available with TC 0.63.145 (or later).

Hopefully this will be the last fix before TC 0.64 is released.

Re: [Tiny-cobol-users] Bug fix for numeric edited types MOVEs

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

m_maass wrote:
> sorry, the fix do not work on my configuration (Slackware 12.1) 
> with TC 0.63.145.
> I become Segmentation fault.
> Please look at the attached typescript.

I'm unable to duplicate this problem on my system.
Note that TC will work on 32-bit (x86-32) systems only.

#htcobol -V
TinyCOBOL pre-alpha 0.63.145 ...

#m1
Please enter 123.45
123.45
123.45 should be 123.45

OR with some integer data

#m1
Please enter 123.45
12345
345.00 should be 123.45
Note that '345.00' is correct.

Other than some issues with GCC (I hope not), the only other remote
possibility I can think of is a TC compiler run-time mis-match.
Meaning that the linker is using the wrong library.

You can use the LDD and LS commands to check ...
#ldd m1
libhtcobol.so.0 => /usr/lib/libhtcobol.so.0 ...
...

#ls -l /usr/lib/libhtcob*
#ls -l /usr/lib/local/libhtcob*

If this is the case, un-install TC (make uninstall), check and remove
any other TC libs.
Then re-install (make install) and update (ldconfig -v).

Anyway, I hope this helps.

Re: [Tiny-cobol-users] Bug fix for numeric edited types MOVEs

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

m_maass wrote:
> Thank for your hints. Library check - OK.
> The problem come unfortunately from gcc.
> The compiled executable m1 work with gcc 3.4.6 (Slackware pasture) but 
> with gcc 4.2.3 (Slackware 12.1) I become segmentation fault.

Thanks for the feed-back.

It seems that GCC 3.x and 4.x are quite different, internally.

Unfortunately, I don't have GCC 4.x installed and have no way to
identify and fix this problem.
So I will release TC 0.64 as is, and hope for the best.