Thank you for the reminder, and accept my apologies for the delays.

Jim and I have been been distracted by an intense effort to rewrite
exception/declarative processing.  There has also been a serious family
health issue that caused us significant delays as well.

I finished a sub-project yesterday, and I will look into these four
patches today.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rainer Orth <r...@cebitec.uni-bielefeld.de>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 7, 2025 04:38
> To: gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org
> Cc: Robert Dubner <rdub...@symas.com>; James K. Lowden
> <jklow...@cobolworx.com>; Jakub Jelinek <ja...@redhat.com>; Richard
Biener
> <rguent...@suse.de>
> Subject: Unreviewed COBOL patches
> 
> Four COBOL patches have remained unreviewed for a month.  They are
> required to get the cobol1 and libgcobol to build on Solaris:
> 
>       cobol: Don't require GLOB_BRACE etc. [PR119217]
>         https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc-patches/2025-April/680675.html
> 
>       cobol: Initialize regmatch_t portably [PR119217]
>         https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc-patches/2025-April/680676.html
> 
> It's unclear how to proceed with this one: my simple patch or Jakub's
> proposal.
> 
>       cobol: Allow for undefined NAME_MAX [PR119217]
>         https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc-patches/2025-April/680682.html
> 
> This one is unclear, too: for one, it turned out that the use of
> NAME_MAX isn't related to filenames at all (which suggests just
> replacing the macro with it's Linux value, 255), but also Richi's
> observation that cbl_funtion_t.name is never set all all (which suggests
> removing it completely).
> 
>       libgcobol: Heed --enable-libgcobol
>         https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc-patches/2025-April/680684.html
> 
> This allows --enable-libgcobol to enable building the runtime lib even
> if the target isn't listed as supported in configure.tgt.
> 
>       Rainer
> 
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> Rainer Orth, Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University

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