RE: [open-cobol-list] a program that doesn't compile

[William M. Klein]

I agree with you that using Low-Values in a mixed COBOL/C environment is
probably going to lead to "undesirable" side-effect.

ON THE OTHER HAND, the behavior of Low-Values in a COBOL program is "well
defined" and is something that must be supported by the compiler and
run-time and will continue to appear in many application programs. 

> -----Original Message-----
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> Behalf Of Alain Lucari
> Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 1:56 PM
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [open-cobol-list] a program that doesn't compile
> 
> Le Tue, 10 Feb 2004 11:04:25 -0500 (EST)
> David Korn <address@hidden> a écrit:
> 
> >                06  Q385-PRNT-HP-PRORD-KEY  PIC X(80)   VALUE SPACES.
> >        PROCEDURE DIVISION.
> >        MOVE LOW-VALUES TO 
> >            Q385-PRNT-HP-PRORD-KEY((Q385-RELTV-HIER-LVL-NBR * 2) -
> >            1:2)
> > ==========================end prog5.cob========================
> 
> Really, I don't understand what this try to do ...
> I have many programs running in production from more than 
> heigth months
> but, CAUTION,  I have replaced all the "move low-values" by 
> "move space"
> because low-value is in C the end of a string and this cause something
> some strange results .
> 
> Best Regards, 
> -- 
> Alain Lucari (Eurlix)
> 
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