[Info-vax] COBOL example $MGBLSC

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 9/8/2023 8:08 AM, Brian Schenkenberger wrote:
> On 2023-09-08 01:50:30 +0000, John Reagan said:
>> Yep, POINTER is one of the few COBOL 2002 keywords in the compiler.
>> Just a container of the correct size (64-bits) but you can't really 
>> operate onit.  You can just pass it to some other routine (in another 
>> language that CAN
>> operate on such things)
> 
> So, it's useless. I've been trying COBOL examples I've found on the net 
> and they fail.  That explains why.
> 
> So there's no way to $MGBLSC, $EXPREG, LIB$GET_VM and use the region 
> created directly in COBOL.

POINTER may be "useless".

But as I showed you just pass an integer with the address by value
to a routine expecting something by reference.

Arne