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Re: [Bug-GnuCOBOL] [Bugs] Redefining a redefinition and misleading error
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Martin Ward |
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Re: [Bug-GnuCOBOL] [Bugs] Redefining a redefinition and misleading error message |
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Tue, 3 Jul 2018 21:24:21 +0100 |
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On 03/07/2018 20:05, J Leslie Turriff wrote:
> On 2018-07-02 12:42:27 Martin Ward wrote:
>> I don't know if redefining a redefine is allowed in standard COBOL:
>> but the second message is definitely incorrect. FOO and BAR
>> are both 725 bytes long.
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> Jus out of curiosity? what happens if you code
> | 03 BAR-DEF-1 REDEFINES FOO.
> instead of
> | 03 BAR-DEF-1 REDEFINES BAR.
> AFAIR, redefining the original used to be the requirement.
Redefining the original works with no errors.
The IBM COBOL compiler documentation explicitly allows
a redefinition of a redefine.
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Martin
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