[open-cobol-list] Hello

[Paul Hewlett]

Hi Everyone

        I have been asked to study the feasibility of compiling COBOL on linux. 
I 
have downloaded the source of opencobol0.3 and compiled it and am attempting 
to compile some example COBOL code.

        So far I have encountered the following problems :

             1. ASSIGN TO RANDOM "testfile.lnx"

                   The token RANDOM is unexpected. Removing it fixes 
                  the  problem. Likewise for ASSIGN TO PRINT etc...

             2. DISPLAY " TEST FILE STATUS = " LINE 20 POSITION 5 REVERSE
                      W-TEST-STATUS LINE 20 POSITION 25 REVERSE

                   The token POSITION is not understood. Changing it to COLUMN 
                   fixes the problem. I assume that putting a synonym for 
                   COLUMN in the file parser.y will fix this.

             3.         77  W-ASCII         PIC 9(5) COMP-1.

                   The qualifier COMP-1 causes the entry to have an attribute 
                   CB_USAGE_FLOAT. However when 'unpacking' the stack the code 
                   calls the proc 'compute_size' and the case statement has no
                   entry for CB_USAGE_FLOAT causing an 'Internal compiler 
                   error' by calling ABORT().(Line 620 of field.c). This may 
                   be related to one of the bugs reported

Additionally I have added an extra option '-p' which if specified on the 
commandline causes the global 'yydebug' to be set and one then gets a dump of 
the internal logic of the parser.

Regards Paul Hewlett
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