I think the multiplication is faster than exponentiation. However, my timings aren't...
Thanks, Simon. I don't understand what you mean by REPLACE. Is that the CDF stuff?...
Dang, forgot to log in again.
I asked this question over on comp.lang.cobol. Rick Smith's answer is very thorough....
Am home now, so will see how it goes on my Ubuntu box.
Now using cobc (GnuCOBOL) 2.0.20151025 Copyright (C) 2001-2015 Free Software Foundation,...
I can see rc-1 but not rc-2. Do you have a link for it?
I've been working on a RosettaCode challenge. It's Euler's sum of powers conjecture....
cobc (GNU Cobol) 2.0.20140821 Copyright (C) 2001,2002,2003,2004,2005,2006,2007 Keisuke...
Didn't make a huge difference, sadly.
No, haven't tried that. Will do now.
I've been working on a RosettaCode challenge. It's Euler's sum of powers conjecture....
Sorry, I did not want to suggest that the GUTPELA program was describing a bug. Far...
Is is nice, though I can't think of an immediate use, that ACCEPT FROM COMMAND-LINE...
Thanks, Simon. It was actually me who posted the above. I've been having a discussion...
/* Line: 44 : STRING : hextest.cob */ cob_string_init (COB_SET_DATA (f_18, b_18),...
Thanks, that fixed it to a point. After that ... welll... IDENTIFICATION DIVISION....
Back in June, Pete Dashwood on comp.lang.cobol posted a challenge to write a decimal...
Support use of L_JAVASCRIPT
I have visited microfocus and have scrolled down to the section named "16.4.4.2 Translating...
Have created a github project for this: COBOCOM
Is there a tool to generate COBOL working-storage from C header files? Alternatively,...
I've posted about this on my weblog. You get an honourable mention, Brian.
Okay, that's just plain weird: The following returns S_OK (0) IDENTIFICATION DIVISION....
Okay, that's just plain weird: The following returns S_OK (0) IDENTIFICATION DIVISION....
Seeing as some of us are using VS2015 Community, please add the following if exist...
Thanks for the cheerleading. Very encouraging. Shall keep pushing.
Can't seem to work it out IDENTIFICATION DIVISION. PROGRAM-ID. OLE. DATA DIVISION....
Okay, this works identification division. program-id. DLLFIXED. data division. working-storage...
i've just downloaded and installed the Windows version: 4.6.6. It's running OC1.1...
I just tried 01 OLE32 SYNC PIC X(10). ... MOVE z"ole32.dll" TO OLE32. ... call stdcall...
This is harder than I thought. Or else ignorance has me in a choke hold. My idea...
C:\GNU Cobol 2.0\programs>set COB_PRE_LOAD=OLE32 C:\GNU Cobol 2.0\programs>COM -2147024809...
Seem to be getting somewhere with set COB_PRE_LOAD=OLE32 Thanks. Bruce
OleInitialize is a symbol in C:\windows\syswow64\ole32.dll Bruce
I don't know where I got the idea from, maybe I dreamt it, but I thought one could...
What's the likely reason for this random but regular crash? It's Notepad++ 6.9.9....