Cobol - RW on Working-Storage (was: J4 - presentation/discussion on "Future of the COBOL

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RW on Working-Storage (was: J4 - presentation/discussion on "Future of the COBOL

William M. Klein

2008-03-12, 6:55 pm

> "Robert" <no@e.mail> wrote in message
> news:38kft3t3h52mm32b1vekgqe1qu98l7l1la@
4ax.com...
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> The standard says working-storage is allocated
> statically.
>

Robert,
Can you point me to where in "the Standard" ('85 or '02) that it says this?
(Certainly it is NOT true in the '02 Standard where you specifically can use the
ALLOCATE/FREE statements to dynamically get storage in Working-Storage Section.)
To the best of my knowledge, no previous ANSI/ISO Standard ever said this
either. In fact, as I recall, when, where, and how storage was allocated by
some vendors differed, for example, for 01-levels and 77-levels.

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Bill Klein
wmklein <at> ix.netcom.com

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