Re: [Bug-GnuCOBOL] [GnuCOBOL 3.0-dev] testsuite: 256 failed

[Simon Sobisch]

Am 17.12.2017 um 11:02 schrieb Harald Arnesen:
> For a few revisions, "make check" hangs on test 256. I have to kill the
> cobc process to continue the tests. Log attached.

Thank you for posting about this issue.
The result from the testsuite.log is the following:

256. syn_misc.at:4751: testing SET SOURCEFORMAT syntax checks ...
./syn_misc.at:4765: $COMPILE_ONLY prog.cob
 prog.cob:6: error: invalid SOURCEFORMAT directive option 'hi!'
 prog.cob:7: error: invalid SOURCEFORMAT directive option ''
 prog.cob:8: error: syntax error, unexpected Variable, expecting Literal
-prog.cob:8: warning: alphanumeric literal has zero length; a SPACE will
be assumed
-prog.cob:8: error: PROGRAM-ID header missing
-prog.cob:8: error: PROCEDURE DIVISION header missing
-prog.cob:8: error: syntax error, unexpected Literal
+prog.cob:8: error: invalid literal: ''
+prog.cob:8: error: literal length exceeds 8191 characters
+
+caught signal (signal SIGTERM)
+
+cobc: aborting compile of prog.cob at line 8 (PROGRAM-ID: unknown)

I've did some first checks and see that it looks to be specific to the
version of C compiler / runtime used.
I can reproduce both the "working" testcase and the failure you've
mentioned (using two different environments) and will investigate this.

Simon