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sathyashree
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hi friends,
I am doing assembler to cobol migration,how to handle base registers ,registers and addresses in cobol.i supposes that it should be replaced by pointer variables and i am not sure abt that......
pls some one help me.... |
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William Thompson
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You should not have to worry aboutbase registers in COBOL, and general register usage can pretty much ignored to.
Dsect in assembler is where you would use COBOL pointers and the linkage section. |
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dick scherrer
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Hello,
As i've mentioned in the past when this is asked, one good way to convert assembler to cobol is to determine what business rules the code is supporting and working toward that goal.
Trying to replace assembler with cobol instruction by instruction is most frustrating and unproductive. Working routine by routine will be more effective. |
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William Thompson
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| sathyashree wrote: |
| Thanks for ur reply,but wat to do with that registers,while convering from assembler to cobol instead of registers v should use pointer variable know...? |
Registers are used for many reasons, each usage has an equivalent in COBOL.
The general base registers can be ignored since COBOL will take care of that.
Registers can provide dsect addressability, pointers and linkage section items can substitute there.
Registers can be used for incrementing and decrementing, such as indexes and subscripts. |
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haibrs
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Hi,
Conversion from Assembler to COBOL is to make the Application Programming more user friendly. In assembly mostly we use registers, adressing concepts more. Recently i have worked one the same kind of projects. So i can suggest U the best way is try to understand the Businees of the application and extract the "businees rules" and create the new requirements for the same in COBOL. but it requires lot of efforts and also time.
All the best!!!
Regards,
BRS. |
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