Mickey White

I suspect that scientific uses would have floating point. But then they should use Fotran or Python. As for COBOL, there is the Rounding isse for computing interest and such. However ROUNDED MODE and NEAREST-AWAY-FROM-ZERO or NEAREST-EVEN helps in those situations.

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I would think checking all the programs that write dealer.txt records, and find the one(s) that write nulls, and change it there, would be the correct fix. But good find on the compiler.

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Oh, missread ... I would think that any C that is called by GCOBOL would get translated into assembly just like GnuCOBOL does to the COBOL and thus all the calls from it?

Has not this ability been in GnuCOBOL since at least version 1.1 ? Calling the C library function, open, mmap, close... is that not the same? Memory Mapping gigabyte ( terabyte ) files in GnuCOBOL is very useful, especially if you are not using DB or Index files...