[Info-vax] calloc fails with access violation

[John Reagan]

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> In article 
> <7447c5b2-7ae5-488d-a2a8-099088796bd2 at r42g2000yqj.googlegroups.com>, Jose 
> Cuevas
>
> COBOL does not, AFAIK, create NULL terminated strings when passing data by
> reference.  In fact, I have written many Macro32 routines for people using
> COBOL and I've not seen a null terminated string.  You might see data with
> a null but that is NOT guaranteed.  John Reagan, compiler droogie, may be
> lurking and can better address this.
>

No, I don't think it does.  However, Hein or Richard will certainly be able 
to offer real examples.  They've forgotten more about COBOL than I know [but 
then again, I haven't tried very hard to learn COBOL :) ]

John