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Re: [Cobolforgcc-devel] Re: [open-cobol-list] GCC front end for COBOL

From: Tim Josling <tej at melbpc dot org dot au>
To: Robert Dewar <dewar at gnat dot com>
Cc: knishida at netlab dot jp, cobolforgcc-devel at lists dot sourceforge dot net, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, open-cobol-list at lists dot sourceforge dot net
Date: Wed, 07 May 2003 06:36:44 +1000
Subject: Re: [Cobolforgcc-devel] Re: [open-cobol-list] GCC front end for COBOL
Organization: Melbourne PC User Group
References: <20030429202832.9BC6DF2D5E@nile.gnat.com>

The only issue would be the copyright. While they have given permission to use the suite freely, it is not public domain, nor copyright FSF.

Bill Klein also pointed out it has not been updated for the second revision of COBOL 85 (the correction amendment).

Tim Josling

Robert Dewar wrote:

Tim Josling said

1. A test suite. Existing languages have comprehensive test suites.
I would think the standard COBOL test suite (used for GSA cobol validations
at least in the past, not sure of current policy) would be a fine test
suite for this purpose.

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