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gcc / gcc/cobol

Date

2026-09-11

Author

James K. Lowden

Commit

eb9821697c80e4229da5b9eeb2c6d3a9948df8a7

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project: gcc
subsystem: gcc/cobol
patch_id: —
commit_hash: eb9821697c80e4229da5b9eeb2c6d3a9948df8a7
source_type: github
headline: Support non-bootstrap builds for GCC 8.5 with brace initialization
tldr: A minor change in the COBOL parser enables non-bootstrap builds with GCC 8.5 by correctly handling brace-initialized elements.
author: James K. Lowden
outcome: committed
performance_win: false
breaking_change: false
series_id: —
series_parts: []
tags: • cobol
• build
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bugzilla_pr: —
url: https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/commit/eb9821697c80e4229da5b9eeb2c6d3a9948df8a7
date: 2026-09-11T00:00:00.000Z

This commit updates the COBOL parser to support non-bootstrap builds when using GCC 8.5. It addresses an issue where brace-initialized construction of elements required each element to be explicitly constructed, now adding wordop_t to each element in parse.y.