Landing: 2000ac7817b3
Project / Subsystem
gcc / cobol
Date
2026-09-24
Author
Robert Dubner
Commit
2000ac7817b353ea920948ae74f9308dd28c4389
Source
github
Perf win
Yes
Breaking
No
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- 2000ac7817b353ea920948ae74f9308dd28c4389
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- headline
- cobol: Cache COBPATH directories for shared object searches
- tldr
- GCC's COBOL runtime now caches COBPATH directories to speed up shared object searches.
- author
- Robert Dubner
- outcome
- committed
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- true
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- false
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- tags
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- • cobol
- • performance
- • dynamic linking
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- date
- 2026-09-24T00:00:00.000Z
The COBOL runtime library has been updated to cache directories specified in the COBPATH environment variable. This optimization speeds up the process of locating dynamically linked shared objects (.so files) used by COBOL programs. New test cases are included to verify functionality.