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Pointers in Cobol

Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 8:24 pm
by balajiiinx
Hi..
Am new to Cobol programming and in my project trying to send a Character pointer from C program to Cobol.

LINKAGE SECTION.
01 MYPOINTER USAGE IS POINTER.
01 MYCHAR-POINTER.
05 MYCHARS PIC X(20).

PROCEDURE DIVISION USING MYPOINTER,MYCHAR-POINTER.
SET ADDRESS OF MYCHAR-POINTER TO MYPOINTER

also tried

SET ADDRESS OF MYPOINTER TO MYCHAR-POINTER .. but no luck :cry:

Cobol module will get Pointer in Linkage section and tries to assign it to a group Item. And i also tried to display the pointer as such but i see only some random numbers.

Am getting SOC4 abend while trying to Set the address.

Could you pls throw some light on this pointer handling in cobol.

Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2008 9:36 am
by Anuj Dhawan
Hi,

I understand it's quite late, however if you get back to the Froums you might like to visit this link:

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocente ... 405287.htm