From: arne@vajhoej.dk   
      
   On 1/14/2025 11:06 AM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:   
   > On 1/13/2025 9:11 PM, John Reagan wrote:   
   >> COBOL paragraphs behave like C.  First routine/PARAGRAPH gets a WEAK   
   >> transfer address.  Linker finds the first one.   
   >   
   > I have many prejudices about COBOL developers.   
   >   
   > One of them is that they don't create shareable images.   
   >   
   > :-)   
      
   But let us say that someone wanted to create a shareable   
   image in Cobol.   
      
   A typical Cobol program just have all the paragraphs that   
   get performed and they share state. Simple.   
      
   To make them entry points with arguments in a shareable image,   
   then I assume one need to make them programs with linkage section   
   and procedure division using.   
      
   Normal variables are just passed as arguments. Seems entirely   
   unproblematic to me.   
      
   But how does one share open files between modules?   
      
   Fortran and Basic numeric identifiers work across modules.   
   Pascal can share via inherit. C can use global variables   
   or just pass as argument.   
      
   But how does one do that in Cobol?   
      
   Can one mark an fd as global or can one pass a fd as argument?   
      
   Arne   
      
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