One of the machines is rather old and one is much more current (1.6 vs 1.10 I believe but will check again tonight - I am only a user)
I did it with COBOL 4.2 and 5.1 with same results. I do not remember the C compiler levels but the behavior was consistent, and WRONG in all combinations. I provided the C program in order to remove the complexity of C to COBOL interface. I would ask that somebody should check it on your machine (replace the DUMPMEM with printf in Hex). If it happens on your latest and greatest version, than I have a point. It does not matter whether the bug is in the library itself or in the language (C, COBOL, whatever) to library interface; I used the thing in the most common, no frills way, as is described in the manual, interfacing two different standard languages and got a problem. Either the manual is wrong or the library or the interface. It is clearly not a user programming issue. If anybody may overcome this issue by using some clever compile options than be it, but I do not think so! Ze'ev Atlas ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
