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gcc / cobol

Date

2026-08-28

Author

James K. Lowden

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88f9e08f681dd1f8ddf8fa8be076117705fac224

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github

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project: gcc
subsystem: cobol
patch_id: —
commit_hash: 88f9e08f681dd1f8ddf8fa8be076117705fac224
source_type: github
headline: Cobol: Improve lexing for LENGTH OF operator.
tldr: Cobol lexer now correctly identifies LENGTH OF to prevent it from being misinterpreted as an identifier.
author: James K. Lowden
outcome: committed
performance_win: false
breaking_change: false
series_id: —
series_parts: []
tags: • cobol
• lexer
• parsing
discussion_id_link: —
bugzilla_pr: —
url: https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/commit/88f9e08f681dd1f8ddf8fa8be076117705fac224
date: 2026-08-28T00:00:00.000Z

The Cobol lexer’s pattern matching has been refined to prioritize the LENGTH OF operator. This ensures that ‘LENGTH’ is not incorrectly recognized as a data item name when it is followed by ‘OF’, preventing lexical analysis errors.