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  • GnuCOBOL 3.2 Release Candidate #2 announcement

    From Arnold Trembley@21:1/5 to All on Sat Feb 11 20:37:56 2023
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    Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2023 08:21:47 +0100
    From: Simon Sobisch <[email protected]>
    To: [email protected]
    Subject: GnuCOBOL 3.2 Release Candidate #2
    Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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    The release of GnuCOBOL 3.2 is imminent.

    Please help to make this release as good as possible by downloading
    and testing this release candidate.


    You can find the source downloads as always on gnu.org and on the
    SourceForge mirror:

    https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/gnucobol/gnucobol-3.2-rc2.tar.lz https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/gnucobol/gnucobol-3.2-rc2.tar.gz https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/gnucobol/gnucobol-3.2-rc2.tar.xz https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/gnucobol/gnucobol-3.2-rc2.tar.bz2 https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/gnucobol/gnucobol-3.2-rc2_win.7z

    https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnucobol/files/gnucobol/3.2/


    The changes from GnuCOBOL 3.1 to 3.2 are huge (see NEWS file), the
    changes GnuCOBOL 3.2-rc1 to 3.2-rc2 are as follows:


    Changes:
    * the option -febcdic-table which was added in 3.2 does not use
    a set of hard-coded translation tables, but provides those as files,
    allowing addition of new tables and adjustments
    * for comparison of COMP-3 fields the full size is used (including
    the padding byte), as done in other implementations; also
    there is no difference between "positive / negative /unsigned zero"

    Performance:
    * faster explicit or internal conversion between USAGE COMP-3
    COMP-6/DISPLAY/BINARY; as well as comparison between any
    binary coded decimal and ADD/SUBTRACT for those USAGEs
    * faster SORT for numeric keys

    Bigger Fixes:
    * ANY LENGTH may have reference-modification again
    * generation of subscripts and lengths > 2GB are restored
    * improvement for USAGE NATIONAL storage (still not implemented)
    * reserved word list fixes
    * several portability issues and compiler/analyzer warnings are fixed

    Features:
    * auto-recognition of reference-format in COBOL source file based on
    first line, the format to use can be explicit specified via -fformat
    option
    * parsing of PIC U / USAGE UTF-8 / DISPLAY-1


    If no problems are found, GnuCOBOL 3.2.0 should be released
    around 2023-02-23. It is expected that both the documentation and the
    internal testsuite is extended until then.

    Regards,
    Simon Sobisch

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