[open-cobol-list] RE: weird runtime error

[Bill Klein]

Sorry Roger, I was away for the weekend.  Check out the '02 Standard
starting on page 114 for the topic

  "8.5.4 Zero-length items"

These were (semi-)introduced in the '85 Standard but NOT well defined there.

Page 819 (in the Substantive Change) section talks a little more about this
under

"29) Zero-length items." 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roger While [mailto:address@hidden 
> Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 2:19 AM
> To: address@hidden
> Cc: address@hidden; address@hidden
> Subject: Re: weird runtime error
> 
> Matt, here's your problem -
>       MOVE 0 TO MA-NUM-REC
> 
> In Cobol, you are not allowed to have zero
> table occurrences.
> Therefore the min and max record lengths are 25 and 109.
> Setting the index to zero causes the passed record
> length to be 4 which causes the error.
> 
> Bill, I can't seem to find a rule for this in
> the standard. Is it implied somewhere ?
> 
> Roger
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