[Info-vax] Calling $CREPRC in COBOL

[Craig A. Berry]

On 6/10/22 2:57 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> On 6/10/22 15:03, Craig A. Berry wrote:
>>
>> On 6/10/22 1:27 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>>> On 6/10/22 14:16, Craig A. Berry wrote:
>>>> On 6/10/22 12:39 PM, VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
>>>>>    10  ENQ-TYPE      PIC X(1)  VALUE EXTERNAL PQL$_ENQLM.
>>>>> ..............^
>>>>> %COBOL-E-EXTREFVAL, VALUE EXTERNAL clause ignored - valid only on COMP
>>>>> data-item
>>>>>
>>>>> How do you put PQL$ items in to a COBOL "byte"?

> I have no idea what POL$_ENOLM means or what he is trying to do with it.
> A rough guess would be rather than declaring it external he needs to
> use some VMS Specific function to grab the value and load it into
> ENO-TYPE.

If SDL produces COBOL text libraries and there is a way to include them
(some variant of COPY?) then yes, he might be able to do the equivalent
of "#include <pqldef.h>" and not need the external declaration.  But the
external declaration is an ancient hack that at one time was more
reliable than depending on the existence of programmer-friendly
definitions, and also, if you were willing to link at installation time,
could insulate against version-specific changes to the symbol value.