https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=126540
Bug ID: 126540
Summary: cobol1: error: "VALUE is too long to initialize"
should possibly silently ignore insignificant data /
only raise a warning
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: ---
error: VALUE ‘ ’ is too long to initialize ‘VAR’, discarded ‘ ’
173 | 77 VAR PIC X(01) VALUE " ".
that is only seen on GCC, other compilers seem to silently truncate
insignificant data (leading zeroes for numeric, trailing spaces for
alphanumeric and national), which is especially useful if you use constants in
there.
In any case I wonder if that message - when truncating anything significant -
should be downgraded to a warning (which I think is the case for other
compilers).
