[open-cobol-list] Open-Cobol 0.31

[Ron Norman]

I recently downloaded this and built it on a Linux system.

I foud a few problems and made code changes to solve them. I'm not sure if my 
changes are 100% correct, but how would I go about passing these changes back 
for future release?

Problem #1.
I have several COBOL applications that have many sections but the same 
paragraph names in each section. For example, Paragraph L00. was always the 
first and L99. was the last. The code in the section woudl then GO TO L99 to 
exit the section. But this caused problems because the program had many 
different paragraphs called L99. I added an array of (current-section) and then 
in cb_ref, scanned that array to find the paragraph that was in the same 
section as the GOTO.

Problem #2. When a REDEFINES was longer than the redefined item, it considered 
this an error. I changed this to be a warning and to smack the size of the 
redefined item to be the longer length.

Problem #3. I mostly use Micro Focus and it has an internal method for 
determining how many parameters are being passed on a CALL. My primary product 
has an old mainframe style API which needs to detect how many parameters where 
passed on the CALL. I changed the codegen.c module to search an array of known 
routines and replace them by a call to an alternate routine witht eh 1st 
parameter being the number of parameters on the CALL statement. it would be 
nice if there was more elegant solution.

Cheers
Ron Norman