ACUCOBOL-GT Compatibility

The Compiler and run-time continue to provide support for ACUCOBOL-GT. The directive ACU is the main switch for turning on ACUCOBOL-GT compatibility. The ACU directive enables various ACUCOBOL-GT syntax extensions and other language elements. Additional ACUCOBOL-GT compatibility features include the following:

• When using a CALL statement, the USING and GIVING/RETURNING phrases can now appear in either order.
• The following ACUCOBOL-GT standard library routines can now be used with Visual COBOL in native code:
  • C$CALLEDBY
  • C$CALLERR
  • C$CHDIR
  • C$MAKEDIR
  • C$MEMCPY
  • C$MYFILE
  • C$PARAMSIZE
  • C$RERR
  • M$ALLOC
  • M$FREE
  • M$COPY
  • M$FILL
  • M$GET
  • M$PUT
  • WIN$VERSION
• The following ACUCOBOL-GT 'ccbl' compiler options can now be used with Visual COBOL:
  • -E, -V
  • -Cv
  • -Da, -Db, -Dd31, -DL1/2/4/8, -Dq, -FpRounding
  • -La, -Li, -Lc, -Lf, -Ll, -Lo, -Ls, -Lw

    Note: The output that these list options provide differs in Visual COBOL.

  • -Qm
  • -Rc, -Rn, -Rw
  • -Sa, -St, -Sd, -Sp, -S1...-S9
  • -noTRUNC, -truncANSI, -Dz
  • -Td, -Te
  • -Vc
  • -Za, -Zc, -Zl, -Zn, -Zs, -Zi, -Zr1, -Zy, -arithmeticVSC2

Full ACUCOBOL-GT compatibility is documented under the Programming section in the product help.