At 20:01 -0700 on 08/11/2014, Duffy Nightingale, SS wrote about Re:
INITILAIZE COST:
Heavy emphasis on that last sentence. Just had a customer who
didn't keep track of the number of entries in his COBOL table while
adding new ones. Ended up adding entries way beyond the end of his
table leading to altering the fields following the table to wrong
values leading to very strange scary looking dumps that seemed to
point to big problems in unsupported code! But, nope, simple, his
table got bigger than the definition.
I thought the code spotted an attempt to go beyond the end of the
table by exceeding the OCCURS value or am I thinking of PL/I which
would catch this error?
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