Re: gnubol: Compiler Limits

[Fred Mobach <fred@mobach.nl>]

"William M. Klein" wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
>
> >
> > Are there other aspects of limits that we should think about before coding
> > syntax / semantics so that we can see ahead of time where
> > parametric devices
> > might be considered early?
> >
>
> Some areas that various compilers set limits on.  (The ANSI/ISO Standard is
> *quite* clear that it is up to the implementor what limits they place on
> "ellipsis" items - so any limit is "legal" whether or not it is
> user-friendly)
> <<snip>>
> Someplace I have a document that was created by the MIA consortium (a
> Japanese COBOL definition) which tells which items they places limits on.
> Similarly, the old IBM SAA definition provided some limits.  I will look for
> those documents (hardcopy only) and see what I find.

Is it worth the effort to have a look in my doc's for this kind of limits ?
Remind you, many of those limits were posed in the old days, when mainframes had
8 or 16 MB of RAM. Those with 512 MB of RAM were really expensive, more than $ 5
million.

Regards,

Fred Mobach



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