Params Outside 1st 64k of Working-Storage invalid for call-by-number 1

[ermimi]

Hello!!! I have a problem. I have begun to work in a new job. I never studied Cobol, and now I have to program in Cobol.
I found some file .cbl and when I try to compile the program return me this error:

Params Outside 1st 64k of Working-Storage invalid for call-by-number

Anybody know which could be this error?

Thank you very much,
A greetings,
Luismi

 

[Glenn9999]

Some COBOL compilers supported what was referred to as call by number.

Instead of calling a sub-program by name, e.g. CALL CBL_ALLOC_MEM, you would have something like CALL x"d0"[/b]

These routines were generally 16-bit, which require a maximum of 64KB for a data segment.

The ideal thing to correct this is to find an equivalent call-by-name routine to call for these cases, or to make sure the parameters for the call-by-number are within the first 64KB of Working-Stroage. In fact, I would start at the beginning of working-storage and put a 01 there with a description like CALL-NUMBER-PARMS. along with a comment saying to not move those values.

Hope that helps.


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