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Status Not under consideration
Workspace COBOL Compilers
Created by Guest
Created on Dec 3, 2018

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Enterprise Cobol V5/V6 - non-dependent codepage binary code

In our RFE 127911, we propose the generation of a platform-independent binary code, which can possibly be run on non-EBCDIC platforms.

This assumes that strings of characters, possibly reduced to a single character, are also independent of the platform.

To do this, we propose that all strings present in the source code, including strings reduced to one character, be generated in an independent section in the object program, encoded in the codepage used for compilation, and that when the execution, at the moment of the loading in memory, this section is transcoded in the codepage of the platform of execution.

This would make it possible to have a binary program executable on EBCDIC or ASCII platforms, or to have a compilation in an EBCDIC variant, and an execution in another EBCDIC variant.

This would also mean that short strings are no longer directly encoded in assembly instructions (immediate values ​​of the instruction).

This proposal is also applicable to the binary code currently generated by the Enterprise Cobol compiler, depending on the target platform. It would have a binary code independent of the codepage used during compilation.

Idea priority Low
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     May 22, 2019

    Use case :

    string firstname delimited by space
    '.' delimited by size
    lastname delimited by space
    '@' delimited by size
    hostname delimited by space

    Character '@' don't have the same internal code depending on codepage :
    - compiled with codepage(1140) : internal code is x'7C'
    - running on system with implicit codepage(1147) : internal code x'7C is 'à' (internal code for '@' is x'40')

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jan 2, 2019

    Hi, this is also outside of our development roadmap and as a result is being rejected.

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