Landing: f55108a98825
Project / Subsystem
gcc / cobol
Date
2026-09-30
Author
Xavier Del Campo Romero
Commit
f55108a98825c8338b5718004344af02f79353be
Source
github
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No
Breaking
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- cobol: Honor explicit -ffree-form
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- GCC COBOL now correctly respects the `-ffree-form` flag, even when the indicator column is set to zero.
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- Xavier Del Campo Romero
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- • cobol
- • compiler flag
- • lexing
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- 2026-09-30T00:00:00.000Z
GCC’s COBOL compiler now correctly honors the -ffree-form compiler flag. Previously, the compiler might ignore this flag if the command_line_indicator_column was set to 0, causing it to fall back to a heuristic format detection. This commit ensures that an explicit -ffree-form setting is always respected by using a boolean flag and forcing the indicator column to be set.