Re: Attribute BASED and LINKAGE SECTION

Not to repeat myself (or perhaps you don't know the answer), but is there
any discernable difference between a based data item declared in the
local-storage section and a based data item declared in the linkage section
(and not used in the USING or RETURNING clause of the PROCEDURE DIVISION
header)?

Frank

William M. Klein<wmklein@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 06/26/06 4:07 PM >>>
Basically, you are "confusing" the current implementations (as extensions)
of
"programmatically addressed data" with the ALLOCATE and BASED features of
the
'02 Standard.

No, in the '02 Standard Linkage Section items are not "implicitly" BASED -
but
can have the BASED attribute (as can WS and Local-Storage) items.

As stated in another post, the Linkage Section (in the '02 Standard - and
the
'85 Standard - but not most existing implementations) is LIMITED to
"communication" between programs (or functions or whatever)

"Roger While" <simrw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:e7of6i$ouj$02$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Need some enlightenment here.
Isn't a LINKAGE SECTION item implicitly BASED ?
If not, why not. If so, what does BASED do ?



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