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Re: Cobol object code compare
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Mark Wonsil <[log in to unmask]>
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Mark Wonsil <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 5 Feb 2008 11:12:17 -0500
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> At QSS we have a utility called GETVER which searches for the date
> based on tests we made dumping compiler binary output to see where
> the date might be stashed. It works most of the time, but since
> mpe/ix days we have used $version in addition to our version string.

Back when I was still doing some COBOL coding in a group environment, I had a
little program that performed a hash on the source code. It wasn't fancy[1]
but it returned a hash string that I fed to the $Version directive. The hash
was then viewable in the object. (VERSION.PUB.SYS)

Mark W.

1. A smarter hash would have ignored comments so that a change to the comments
would not have required a recompile...

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