https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=126496
Bug ID: 126496
Summary: cobol1: non-documented non-standard directive $END-IF
not handled (+ word split issue)
Product: gcc
Version: 17.0
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: P3
Component: cobol
Assignee: unassigned at gcc dot gnu.org
Reporter: simonsobisch at gnu dot org
Target Milestone: ---
The supported Micro Focus extension for conditional compilation
$IF something
continue
$ELSE
continue
$END
works fine (last time I've checked the -E = preprocessing leaves the
conditional and all code parts in though, I really think it should be dropped
and only the "active" part left in - as it is done with "gcc -E" on any other
language --> if there isn't a bugzilla item for that please crate it)
There is an undocumented variant though, which raises a bad error message
$IF something
continue
$ELSE
continue
$END-IF
> error: syntax error, unexpected '-'
In this case the word-splitting (in conditional compilation in general?) is
bad, because the _understandable_ error message would have been
> error: syntax error, unexpected END-IF
or even better
> error: unknown directive "END-IF"
> error: $END missing
Apart from this I suggest to do the same as GnuCOBOL: support the undocumented
variant $END-IF as well (ideally _after_ adjusting the word-split / parsing)
