15 Mar
2022
15 Mar
'22
6:12 a.m.
On Mar 14, 2022, at 9:05 PM, Bill Gunshannon via
cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
On 3/14/22 20:53, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
Yes, although that one is apparently more limited. And GnuCOBOL is a COBOL to C
converter. gcobol is a full front end. One difference is that GDB will be able to do
COBOL mode debugging.
Saw a note on the GCC list that I thought some
here might find interesting: it announces the existence (not quite done but getting there)
of a COBOL language front end for GCC. Interesting. For those who deal in legacy COBOL
applications that want a more modern platform, I wonder if this might be a good way to get
there. Run old COBOL dusty decks on Linux, yeah...
We already have GnuCOBOL which works just fine (most of the time). I wonder if I
can make build that front end with the pdp11 back-end. :-)
I wasn't aware it was still possible to build the PDP-11 back-end. I
thought support for that was dropped ages ago.