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gcc / cobol

Date

2026-08-24

Author

James K. Lowden

Commit

c3743bccd47712301ade2bc8d85fd3477bfce9ca

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github

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project: gcc
subsystem: cobol
patch_id: —
commit_hash: c3743bccd47712301ade2bc8d85fd3477bfce9ca
source_type: github
headline: Cobol SORT statement enhancement for nested tables
tldr: Cobol SORT statement now supports sorting within nested tables and qualified names.
author: James K. Lowden
outcome: committed
performance_win: false
breaking_change: false
series_id: —
series_parts: []
tags: • cobol
• language
• parser
discussion_id_link: —
bugzilla_pr: —
url: https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/commit/c3743bccd47712301ade2bc8d85fd3477bfce9ca
date: 2026-08-24T00:00:00.000Z

The Cobol SORT statement has been enhanced to accept qualified names and nested table names. This change makes the SORT functionality more flexible by allowing operations on more complex data structures. Minor adjustments were made to the lexer’s state machine to accommodate this new parsing capability.