[Info-vax] COBOL, <gack!> again! Return status.

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2023-09-12 kl. 14:26, skrev bill:

> I read the VA COBOL Reference and the VSI OpenVMS COBOL
> Reference and it appears that VMS COBOL does not even
> support RETURNING/GIVING in call statements...

My copy of "VSI OpenVMS VSI COBOL Reference Guide" says
on page 275, in the description of the CALL statement:

22.
On Alpha and I64 systems, if the GIVING phrase of the CALL
statement is not specified, the function result is made available
in the RETURN-CODE special register when control returns to the
calling program.

23.
If the GIVING phrase is specified, the function result is made
available in function-res when control returns to the calling program.

[function-res]
Is the identifier of an elementary integer numeric data item with COMP,
COMP-1, or COMP-2 usage and no scaling positions. function-res can be
subscripted, and it can be qualified. When control returns to the calling
program, function-res can contain a function result.



I would not expected that to be any different on x86...