Re: [open-cobol-list] Small addition for OpenCOBOL Programmers Guide

[vince]

On Wednesday 11 Apr 2012 09:56:22 Fred Mobach wrote:

> The MF compiler is unknown to me, but I stumbled upon this behavior of
> openCOBOL during a migration of sources previously used in
> Siemens/Bull/IBL environments. As most of the source works as expected
> I won't blame openCOBOL for accepting the slash, just enjoy being
> surprised.
> 
> To make a simple check possible the openCOBOL version and the test
> source are below.
> 
> address@hidden:~/cob/tests> cobc -m -W retcode.cob
> address@hidden:~/cob/tests> cat retcode.cob
>        identification division.
>        program-id. x.
>        environment division.
>        data division.
>        working-storage section.
>        01  ws-variables.
>            03  returncode            pic s9(12) comp sync value -11.
>       /
>        procedure division.
>        mainline section.
>        p00.
>            move 21 to return-code
>            display "return-code=" return-code end-display
>                .
>        peos.
>            stop run.
> address@hidden:~/cob/tests> cobc --version
> cobc (OpenCOBOL) 1.1.0
> Copyright (C) 2001-2009 Keisuke Nishida / Roger While
> Built    Feb 19 2012 22:24:40
> Packaged Feb 06 2009 10:30:55 CET
> address@hidden:~/cob/tests>

OK, looks like it works on fixed format but mine have all been converted to 
free form so that could explain it.

Thanks for the heads up.