<snippage> If I remember rightly Pascal does bounds checking. Pascal was one of the languages I did at college - and the highest-level one. A bit of a shock to me to discover - in an IBM Systems Engineer training homework assignment - that COBOL didn't. (This was in 1986.) The result was me stomping over the code by assigning values to array elements using only slightly excessive subscript values. :-) I think I learnt something from that. :-)
I mention this because the bounds checking in Pascal is probably what prevented buffer overrun issues (and nowadays with C etc actual exploits). Cheers, Martin <SNIPPAGE> What about SSRANGE? Wasn't there an equivalent for FCOBOL as well as VS/COBOL? Regards, Steve Thompson PS. All of my COBOL manuals/books are in transit to storage while selling the current house. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
