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The libgcobol is intended for use entirely and solely by executables created
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from COBOL source code by the GCOBOL "COBOL for GCC" front end.
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libgcobol.a can be staticly linked in, but it makes for very large binaries. We
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tend to use that for debugging the GCOBOL compiler, and not much else
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Many of the functions in the library are called by the executable code generated
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by the GCOBOL compiler through GIMPLE tags, and thus prototypes -- which are
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part of the C/C++ programming paradigm -- are not used. Both the calling
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program and the called program use the extern "C" construction so that the
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linker can find the functions, and they need to agree ahead of time about the
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meaning of passed parameters.
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