Landing: af7d8aa47684
Project / Subsystem
gcc / cobol
Date
2026-09-28
Author
James K. Lowden
Commit
af7d8aa47684edd0a2947face79ace648bd7da96
Source
github
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No
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- cobol: Maintain lexer state after CDF.
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- Improves COBOL parsing by ensuring lexer state is preserved after handling directives, fixing implicit PICTURE recognition.
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- • cobol
- • parser
- • lexer
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- 2026-09-28T00:00:00.000Z
This commit enhances the COBOL parser’s ability to maintain lexer state when processing Compiler-Directing Facilities (CDF) lookahead tokens. Previously, if a CDF token was not a lookahead token, it was reprocessed, sometimes leading to incorrect NAME recognition. The changes ensure that the lexer state is correctly managed, fixing an issue where a CDF directive could prevent the recognition of an implicit PICTURE clause. Debug messages and internal logic have also been tidied.