I am going back to the drawing board and I will have a hard look at the regex.h again and will do some tests with 64 bits compilations vs. 32 bits.
It is extremely hard to deduce from the documentation what to expect and what structure is in effect when one compiles with any combination of pragma's/macros, etc. Than, when I know better, I'll still have the task of apply that knowledge to COBOL compilation combination. I assume now that COBOL and C when compiled under normal LE environment communicate somehow with the library to produce the correct structures in reality. If I am correct, I just have to trace the rules and translate them to appropriate copybooks. I still think that the decision, many decades ago, to leave the actual definition and implementation of short, int, long, etc. to the implementation rather than enforce rules (16, 32, 64 bits) was wrong and shortsighted. I thought so when I was introduced to C in the late nineteen eighties and I did not find any reason to change my mind ever since. ZA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
