[open-cobol-list] Mixing Cobol with Cobol, Symbol Conflicts

[Michael]

I installed OpenCobol on a HP server, running the latest 64bit, 
/Itanium/ version of HPUX. The company/client is using AcuCobol, and I 
planned on slowly folding OpenCobol into the mix of AcuCobol, and C, and 
other misc languages. The client needed a few NEW subroutines written, 
simple stuff, and chose OpenCobol instead of C, because 'this company' 
prefers Cobol and I didn't want to use AcuCobol for a subroutine library.

Bottom_line; When the OpenCobol subroutine is called from AcuCobol there 
are a bunch of symbol conflicts. The core dump shows a OC routine has 
the same name as an AcuCobol routine. Then on further investigation, 
there are many 'cob_' functions/routines in both OC and Acu that are 
named the same.

So instead of writing the new library of functions using OpenCobol I had 
to use C.
My question (finally) is; Is it possible to change the OpenCobol 
function prefix from 'cob_' to 'oc_cob'?
This would make easier to introduce OC into other Cobol environments, in 
a very subtle way.

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Michael Anderson,
J3k Solutions
Sr.Systems Programmer/Analyst
832.515.3868