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rsk · Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2005 1:57 am Post subject: doubt on cobol redefines clause

In a particular Cobol program there are two 01 level working storage group variables are there. Their structures are as follows:

01 Variable-X.
05 A PIC X(9).
05 B PIC X(10). --------Length of Variable-X is 29 bytes
05 C PIC 9(10).

01 Variable-Y.
05 A1 PIC X(5).
05 B1 PIC X(10). ----------Length of Variable-Y is 35 bytes
05 C1 PIC X(20).

Now I have to redefine the Variable-X with another 01 level variable Variable-Z whose length is greater than the Variable-X. Lets take the length of Variable-Z as 40 bytes. Now my question is whether the last 11 bytes of the Variable-Z(40-29=11) will point to the memory location of the first 11 bytes of the Variable-Y. My basic doubt is whether all the variables in the working storage section will be in contiguous memory location or not?

Regards,
rsk.
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Dibakar · Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2005 3:00 am Post subject:

No, position of variable-y will be adjusted accordingly.

rsk · Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2005 3:10 am Post subject:

Thanks a lot for your reply.
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rsk