Peter Farley writes: >And unfortunately [Enterprise COBOL V5.1] does NOT allow the same range >of values that the C/C++ compiler's ARCH option allows.
Enterprise COBOL V5.1 supports compilation for ARCH(6) and above, i.e. z990/z890 processors and above. Enterprise COBOL V4.2 is still available if there's a requirement to target older processors. >It would appear that either I was wrong in my assumption that COBOL had >adopted the C/C++ back end or else in adopting it they restricted the >possible values which can be used to z990/z890 and up. Or possibly both? Additional ARCH settings would have required additional testing, presumably. I can see the wisdom in spending those testing resources in other ways. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy Sipples GMU VCT Architect Executive (Based in Singapore) E-Mail: [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
