So this is a good place to post compiler questions. Yes COBOL Café on Developer works is also good.
If you have the ability to use Q&A on Service link, that might be best. Tom Ross does look here occasionally. But not guaranteed Lizette > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of > Steve Thompson > Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2018 7:43 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Best Group for COBOL Question(s) > > Folks: > > I've been searching and searching, and I know that at one time there was a > COBOL List server, but I can't find it now. > > My question is, what would be the best group to ask a compiler question > (specific to COBOL) that Tom (forgot his last name), would probably see? > > IBM's blogs, community, etc are not my idea of a good time -- already got out > there and spent too much time battling through their interface. > > And so you can enjoy this, my question is, why is it that OPT(0) overrides > INITCHECK, but if I ask for Optimization (e.g, OPT(1)) it works? > > Frankly, I do not want anyone using INITCHECK (IC) outside of > OPT(0) which means NOOPT (except that you can't say that with COBOL 6.2). > > Yes, INITCHECK is ONLY done by the Compiler during Parse/SCAN operations and > not during code gen (as I read the manual). > > But it takes more CPU for this to work, so why do that AND the CPU burn of > Optimization for a compile where one is attempting to determine if fields are > being referenced before they have had something put in them? > > So anyone else see anything a bit silly about this? > > > Regards, > Steve Thompson > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to > lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
