Programming Language Translators

[Eli Duttman]

Perhaps this topic belongs on Software, but a look there suggests the "board" is for application users.

Is an x86 assembler and/or a COBOL compiler available for use under Linux? I read (sort of) C, but my expertise lies elsewhere.

GETMAIN, anybody?

[sonoran]

cobol:
http://www.opencobol.org/
http://www.freebyte.com/programming/cobol/

assemblers:
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Assembly-HOWTO/assemblers.html

opencobol is a cobol-to-C translator.

[Eli Duttman]

Originally Posted by sonoran

cobol:
http://www.opencobol.org/
http://www.freebyte.com/programming/cobol/

assemblers:
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Assembly-HOWTO/assemblers.html

opencobol is a cobol-to-C translator.

Thank you!! That's exactly what I was looking for.

FWIW, my biggest issue with C lies in the character string area. As surely as PL1 reflects the architecture of S360 and its offspring, C reflects the AT&T processor Kernigan and Ritchie worked on. That processor lacked a character string data type. The null terminated string emulation used by C is (IMO) ghastly. It will be interesting to see how COBOL character data rules are implemented in C.