[open-cobol-list] Bug reports and other stuff

[Brian Tiffin]

Hello,

Is it best practise to report OC1.1 bugs here, or the forum?

I'm getting cobc seg faults while compiling the use of pic 88 fields.  I can 
send sample code, but wonder again, if that is better on the forum?  Is the 
forum too public or is it No fear, OpenCOBOL has the balls to take it?  :)

SCREEN SECTION
SECURE.  A DISPLAY of a screen with SECURE data does not obfuscate.  The 
asterisks appear on edit, but not on redisplay.

@John Culleton.  I can't claim expertise in either PHP or ECMAScript.  I 
prefer reading PHP and find change points are a lot easier to grok for.  But 
javascript is far more ubiquitous in the wild I think.  You can run forms of 
Jscript (or whatever MS deems it below their station to call it) right from a 
Win95 script runner.  PHP doesn't seem to be as universally available.

I have biased opinions of course and as stated, little expertise, but I do 
prefer PHP, but would think twice before recommending that preference to 
management.  It may be that I usually encounter PHP on the "outside" of a web 
bundle, while ECMAScript is buried "inside and all around" other markup, so I 
find PHP more pleasant and less hassle.

Cheers everyone,
Brian Tiffin

P.S. I'm off the Digest Mode now.  I was 10 days getting the first list mail.  
Excuse.

Just in case; here is the seg fault code.  I had to take out using the 88 
field or it wouldn't compile.  Leaving in the definition was ok, just not the 
lines that use endofpipe.

cobc (OpenCOBOL) 1.1.0 Build date Jul 16 2008 08:49:19

       >>SOURCE FORMAT IS FREE
*> *********************************************************************
*> Author:    Brian Tiffin
*> Date:      19-July 2008      
*> Purpose:   Play with SYSTEM CALL
*> Tectonics: cobc 
identification division.
program-id. systemcall.
environment division.
input-output section.
file-control.
    select optional pipefile
    assign to "pipefile.oc"
    organization is line sequential.
data division.
file section.
fd pipefile.
   01 pipedata  pic x(80).
      88 endofpipe value high-values.

working-storage section.
procedure division.
open input pipefile.
read pipefile
    at end set endofpipe to true
end-read.
display endofpipe pipedata end-display.
goback.