In article <20240407173313.54ea08fab5b020b97755f38c@speakeasy.net>,
James K. Lowden <jklowden@speakeasy.net> wrote:
>On Mon, 12 Feb 2024 15:20:32 -0000 (UTC)
>gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) wrote:
>
>> > cat /proc/sys/net/core/somaxconn
>>
>> I expect someone will post the COBOL version any minute now.
>
>As Polonius said, "Brevity Is the soul of wit".
>
> IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.
> PROGRAM-ID. SHOW-SOMAXCONN.
> AUTHOR. On behalf of Kenny McCormack.

That is so cool! Thanks for posting!

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On Mon, 08 Apr 2024 19:46:32 +0000, James K. Lowden wrote:

> DISPLAY "somaxconn is " DATUM. DIVIDE 1024 into DATUM.
> DISPLAY "somaxconn is " DATUM " KB".

Just a note that SOMAXCONN is a number of entries (the limit on the
accept-pending queue), not a size in bytes.

> gcobol is the ISO COBOL front-end being developed for GCC.

Is that different from gnucobol?

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:
> On Mon, 08 Apr 2024 19:46:32 +0000, James K. Lowden wrote:
>
>> DISPLAY "somaxconn is " DATUM. DIVIDE 1024 into DATUM.
>> DISPLAY "somaxconn is " DATUM " KB".
>
> Just a note that SOMAXCONN is a number of entries (the limit on the
> accept-pending queue), not a size in bytes.
>
>> gcobol is the ISO COBOL front-end being developed for GCC.
>
> Is that different from gnucobol?

Yes. GnuCOBOL evolved from OpenCOBOL, and is a translator that
generates C code that's fed to gcc. gcobol (which is newer) is a
frontend for gcc.

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On Mon, 8 Apr 2024 22:27:24 -0000 (UTC)
Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

> On Mon, 08 Apr 2024 19:46:32 +0000, James K. Lowden wrote:
>
> > DISPLAY "somaxconn is " DATUM. DIVIDE 1024 into DATUM.
> > DISPLAY "somaxconn is " DATUM " KB".
>
> Just a note that SOMAXCONN is a number of entries (the limit on the
> accept-pending queue), not a size in bytes.

A useful clarification, thanks. I should have known, from the
discussion. Or, you know, documentation. :-)

The intention was only to show that PIC 9(8) in COBOL is a computable
field where the numerical value is held as a sequence of up
to 8 characters.

> > gcobol is the ISO COBOL front-end being developed for GCC.
>
> Is that different from gnucobol?

Yes. GnuCOBOL is another, much older, project. It converts COBOL to
C, and uses a C compiler (usually gcc) to produce executable code.

gcobol extends GCC directly and sits alongside the other languages --
C, C++, Java, Fortran, Go, Modula2, Pascal, Rust, et al. -- that gcc
compiles.

At present, gcobol is maintained in separate repository

https://gitlab.cobolworx.com/COBOLworx/gcc-cobol

that is updated periodically from the main GCC repository. We are in
the process of merging the code upstream, after which point COBOL will
become part of the official GCC distribution.

--jkl