[open-cobol-list] GOBACK in main program

[Roger While]

Yes, indeed.
Background to this is interesting.
A couple of months ago somebody pointed out
that EXIT PROGRAM should act like a CONTINUE
when used in a "main" program (per 2002 standard).
I changed OC to do this without realising that GOBACK
was using the same code.
In fact I was of the opinion that GOBACK was legacy code.
Nope, it's firmly there in the 2002 standard and does indeed
state that GOBACK acts as a STOP RUN in a "main"
program and as an EXIT PROGRAM otherwise.

Now fixed.
Download as usual.

Roger


> I have compiled all of the main batch program (called from the script)
> with -m, and execute them with cobcrun.
>
> Several of the programs use a GOBACK instead of a STOP RUN to end the
> program.
>
> On the mainframe and MicroFocus, the programs end when it hits the GOBACK.
>
> With OC, since there is no module to return to, the goto exit_program is
> never executed, and the program falls through and starts to execute the
> first paragraph after the mainline.