Tiêu chuẩn quốc tế

• Số hiệu / Standard Number: ANSI INCITS/ISO/IEC 1989:2014
• Năm ban hành / Publication date: 2014
• Tình trạng / Status: A - Còn hiệu lực
• Tên tiếng Anh / Title in English: Information technology - Programming languages, their environments and system software interfaces - Programming language COBOL
• Thay thế cho / Replace: ANSI INCITS/ISO/IEC 1989:2006
• Số trang / Page: 952

Phạm vi áp dụng / Scope of standard

This International Standard specifies the syntax and semantics
of COBOL. Its purpose is to promote a high degree of machine
independence to permit the use of COBOL on a variety of data
processing systems. This International Standard specifies:

- The form of a compilation group written in COBOL.

- The effect of compiling a compilation group.

- The effect of executing run units.

- The elements of the language for which a conforming
implementation is required to supply a definition.

- The elements of the language for which meaning is explicitly
undefined.

- The elements of the language that are dependent on the
capabilities of the processor.

This International Standard does not specify:

- The means whereby a compilation group written in COBOL is
compiled into code executable by a processor.

- The time at which method, function, or program runtime modules
are linked or bound to an activating statement, except that runtime
binding occurs of necessity when the identification of the
appropriate program or method is not known at compile time.

- The time at which parameterized classes and interfaces are
expanded.

- The mechanism by which locales are defined and made available
on a processor.

- The form or content of error, flagging, or warning
messages.

- The form and content of listings produced during compilation,
if any.

- The form of documentation produced by an implementor of
products conforming to this International Standard.

- The sharing of resources other than files among run units.