From: arne@vajhoej.dk   
      
   On 2/2/2025 8:30 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:   
    > 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?   
      
   Did some reading.   
      
   IS GLOBAL in one module and IS EXTERNAL in the other modules?   
      
   Arne   
      
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