Re: ORACLE, COBOL, AND UNIX L

Jitze Couperus (jitze_at_svl.cdc.com) wrote:
> jared.hecker_at_factory.com (Jared Hecker) writes:
 

> >I take it there's no Pro*COBOL for Accucobol/85. Which COBOL compilers are
> >supported? Accucobol's fairly well known. I'd have guessed it and Liant
> >would be supported.
 

> We were asked to check out AccuCobol with Oracle on our platform
> (CD4000 series, UNIX based RISC machine based on SGI/MIPS processor)
> and found no problems in using the standard Pro*Cobol and substituting
> AccuCobol for the "supported" Cobol compiler - that is to say we found
> no problems after we read the manual and set the right compile parameter
> to ensure correct alignment of parameters for CALL statements, but
> that was about the extent of any tweaking we had to do.
> Your mileage may vary...

Our setup uses AcuCobol fine: we had to patch in SQLADR to the runtime interpreter, and then figure out why we were getting bus errors (the same alignment errors mentioned above).
But, we can't call COBOL from anything else, due to the definition of main in both the calling program and in the runtime interpreter.

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