RE: [open-cobol-list] USAGE POINTER

[William M. Klein]

A couple things to think about for this extension.

1) Earlier release of IBM COBOL allowed SET ADDRESS OF data-item only for
LINKAGE SECTION data items.  Current releases also allow it for WS items

2)  SET ADDRESS OF must be followed by an 01 or 77-level item (not a
subordinate item)

3) Be careful about the distinctions between USAGE POINTER and USAGE
Procedure-Poi8nter (both exist in current IBM and many PC compilers) 

> -----Original Message-----
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> Behalf Of Keisuke Nishida
> Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 1:43 AM
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> Cc: David Korn
> Subject: [open-cobol-list] USAGE POINTER
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> At Mon, 02 Feb 2004 11:05:44 +0900,
> Keisuke Nishida wrote:
> > 
> > > The IBM Cobol compiler allows USAGE POINTER for a defined 
> variable.
> > Yes, that is one of the things I want to implement next.
> 
> I have just implemented it, as well as the ADDRESS OF operator,
> in CVS.  Could you try it?
> 
> Keisuke
> 
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