It takes a village.
Specifically, it took a village for me to accomplish the goal of possibly
bringing the COBOL front end in the next release of GCC-15 up to the
current level found in GCC-16.
I can't thank Richard and Jakub and Thomas and the group here enough. I
came in knowing nothing, and you kept guiding me as I fumbled about
accumulating knowledge. And it appears to have worked, and through it I
have learned a bunch about GIT that I simply didn't know existed.
The generosity of this communitry is an ongoing amazement.
I believe that I have checked all of the boxes that Richard told me about.
For the record, here are the commands that created the "patch":
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$ git switch -C patched15 gcc/releases/gcc-15
$ git cherry-pick -x --allow-empty --allow-empty-message
--keep-redundant-commits \
$(git rev-list --reverse basepoints/gcc-16..gcc/master \
--invert-grep --grep="Daily bump" \
--invert-grep --grep="Malcolm" \
-- libgcobol gcc/cobol gcc/testsuite/cobol.dg )
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The result of that is the branch "patched15". It has 47 cherry-picked
commits on top of gcc/releases/gcc-15. With gcc-15.1.0 as the compiler,
it successfully compiles on an x86_64-linux Ubuntu 22.04 LTS system
starting from "../configure --enable-languages=all,cobol", meaning it is a
bootstrapped multilib build. "make check-cobol" then runs with no
unexpected errors.
That branch "patched15" can be found at
https://gitlab.cobolworx.com/COBOLworx/gcc-cobol.git.
I respectfully request that it be considered for merging into
releases/gcc-15.
Thanks again.
Bob Dubner
