> Yesterday Duane Percox answered longly to Brian about the > decision of his > company to migrate to HP9K. For Duane HP make a lot of efforts for > supporting the HP3K in his strategic presentations. > As a MIS in a little company in France I can say that [...]44_3Jul199808:45:[log in to unmask]
Chen Hai Jing said in his message of 01-July-1998 at 9:03 PM:
> The error is created by a 'PERFORM SOMETHING THRU SOMETHING-EXIT'. An
> 'GOTO' command is inserted within the subprogram and lead to an other
> process. It seems a forced 'GOTO' from within a 'PERFORM' will cause the
> pointer be pushed into a stack. And will some times make the stack
> over-flow.
Ahhh - the dreaded GOTO in a COBOL program... in a PERFORM THRU as well!
Denys - Take that wet noodle we were talking about earlier, ship it to
China, and let Chen Hi have it to whip the person responsible for this ...
this GOTO of all things!
(I jest, of course - although GOTO statements are a no-no if at all possible
in my book).
