https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=120791
Bug ID: 120791
Summary: FR: support for MOVEing pointer to pointer
Product: gcc
Version: 16.0
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: P3
Component: cobol
Assignee: unassigned at gcc dot gnu.org
Reporter: simonsobisch at gnu dot org
Target Milestone: ---
This is explicit forbidden by standard COBOL (where you need to use SET) but
supported with MF, ACU, GC and likely others.
Compiling with -dialect gnu -dialect mf this raises
error: cannot MOVE 'MEM-POINTER-OUT' (FldPointer) to 'MEM-POINTER-ALT'
(FldPointer)
As there's no clever awk-script usable, this otherwise means to possibly clean
up a lot of old sources [I should be able to work around that for this
codebase].
