
2022-10-10  Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@gnu.org>

	* runtime.cfg: add COB_CORE_FILENAME and adjust COB_CORE_ON_ERROR

2022-10-05  Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@gnu.org>

	* *.conf: changed top-level-occurs-clause "skip" to "unconformable"

2022-09-30  Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@gnu.org>

	* runtime.cfg: adjustments for LINE SEQUENTIAL docs

2022-09-21  Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@gnu.org>

	* runtime.cfg: extend docs for LINE SEQUENTIAL settings

2022-09-15  Nicolas Berthier <nicolas.berther@ocamlpro.com>

	* general: add options areacheck and missing-period

2022-08-03  Fabrice Le Fessant <fabrice.le_fessant@ocamlpro.com>

	* general: do not reserve EXAMINE keyword by default, only in
	  lax configurations

2022-08-17  Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@gnu.org>

	* general: add xml-parse-xmlss, note: explicit NOT enabled
	  in lax.conf-inc as it would change the result for -std=acu

2022-07-28  Nicolas Berthier <nicolas.berthier@ocamlpro.com>

	* general: add option format

2022-07-14  Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@gnu.org>

	* general: set defaultbyte to "none" for standard COBOL, 32 to " "

2022-07-12  Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@gnu.org>

	* ibm-strict.conf, mvs-strict.conf, gcos-strict.conf, bs2000-strict.conf:
	  adjusted defaultbyte to 0

2022-07-12  Nicolas Berthier <nicolas.berthier@ocamlpro.com>

	* general: add option picture-l

2022-07-01  Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@gnu.org>

	* general: removed alias VALUES=VALUE, now a separate word

2022-06-17  Nicolas Berthier <nicolas.berthier@ocamlpro.com>

	* general: added config option device-mnemonics (boolean)

2022-06-12  Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@gnu.org>

	* runtime.cfg: add COB_CORE_ON_ERROR

2022-06-10  Ron Norman <rjn@inglenet.com>

	* general: add 'defaultbyte'

2022-05-25  Nicolas Berthier <nicolas.berther@ocamlpro.com>

	* general: added option partial-replacing-with-literal

2022-03-11  Fabrice Le Fessant <fabrice.le_fessant@ocamlpro.com>

	* general: add a stop-error-statement option to allow configuring
	  the support of the STOP ERROR statement

2022-01-27  Nicolas Berthier <nicolas.berther@ocamlpro.com>

	* general: added option control-division

2022-06-24  Nicolas Berthier <nicolas.berthier@ocamlpro.com>

	* general: remove indicator-column option, which is now a flag

2022-02-07  David Declerck <david.declerck@ocamlpro.com>

	* gcos-strict.conf, gcos.conf, gcos.words: added config files for
	  GCOS 7 (Bull) dialect

2022-02-07  David Declerck <david.declerck@ocamlpro.com>

	* general: add a record-contains-depending-clause option to allow
	  configuring the support of the DEPENDING clause in RECORD CONTAINS

2022-02-04  David Declerck <david.declerck@ocamlpro.com>

	* general: add an indicator-column option to allow customizing
	  the position of the indicator

2021-11-14  Ron Norman <rjn@inglenet.com>

	* mf.words: Add MF specific names B-EXOR, B-LEFT, B-RIGHT for bit
	  operations

2021-10-19  Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@gnu.org>

	* general: changed larger-redefines-ok (boolean) to larger-redefines,
	  now a support option allowing "warning only"

2021-09-28  Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@gnu.org>

	* lax.conf-inc: set synchronized-clause to be only ignored if the
	  dialect including this has it set to error/unconformable

2021-09-17  Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@gnu.org>

	* cobol2002.words, cobol2014.words: fixed missing aliases THROUGH=THRU,
	  CORR=CORRESPONDING, COMPUTATIONAL*=COMP*, QUOTES=QUOTE, SYNC=SYNCHRONIZED

2021-09-14  Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@gnu.org>

	* general: added odoslide, active in bs200, ibm, mvs (previously a
	  compile flag only)
	* bs2000-strict.conf: adjusted complex-odo to "yes"

2021-08-31  Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@gnu.org>

	* acu.words, bs2000.words, cobol85.words, ibm.words, mf.words, mvs.words,
	  realia.words, rm.words: fixed missing aliases CORR=CORRESPONDING,
	  COMPUTATIONAL*=COMP*, QUOTES=QUOTE, SYNC=SYNCHRONIZED, THROUGH=THRU
	* ibm.words: updated to Enterprise COBOL 6.3, now includes a lot of
	  ISO2002 functions and HEX/BIT conversion functions
	* mf.words: updated to Visual COBOL 6.0, similar additions to ibm,
	  removed ISO2002-only words
	* acu.words: updated to ACUCOBOL-GT 10.4, now with XML and JSON
	  statements from MF/IBM

2021-07-29  Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@gnu.org>

	* general: added self-call-recursive, only active (as "warning") for
	  default.conf, in all other cases no change to RECURSIVE attribute
	  is happening any more, fixing bug 686

2021-07-05  Ron Norman <rjn@inglenet.com>

	* runtime.cfg: added COB_SEQ_CONCAT_NAME and COB_SEQ_CONCAT_SEP used
	  for 'concatenated input files'

2021-02-03  Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@gnu.org>

	* acu-strict.conf: fix settings indirect-redefines + assign-variable

2020-11-08  Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@gnu.org>

	* general: added ref-mod-zero-length, only active for default.conf

2020-11-06  Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@gnu.org>

	* default.conf, mf-strict.conf, acu-strict.conf, lax.conf-inc:
	  vsam-status as ignored

2020-08-18  Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@gnu.org>

	* bs2000-strict.conf, cobol85.conf, cobol2002.conf, cobol2014.conf:
	  changed assign-clause to 'external'

2020-08-17  Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@gnu.org>

	* general: added option local-implies-recursive

2020-07-17  Edward Hart <edward.dan.hart@gmail.com>

	* general: added option dpc-in-data

2020-07-05  Edward Hart <edward.dan.hart@gmail.com>

	* general: added option vsam-status

2020-05-11  Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@gnu.org>

	* general: added options type-to-clause and usage-type

2020-04-03  Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@gnu.org>

	* general: added option numeric-pointer *EXPERIMENTAL*

2020-01-12 Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@gnu.org>

	* general: bug #513 (partial) added sync-left-right

2020-01-04  Edward Hart <edward.dan.hart@gmail.com>

	* general: added options assign-variable, assign-using-variable,
	  assign-ext-dyn and assign-disk-from.

2020-01-01 Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@gnu.org>

	* general: FR #193 added same-as-clause

2019-12-28  Edward Hart <edward.dan.hart@gmail.com>

	* general: changed assign-clause directives to use more descriptive
	  dynamic/external instead of mf/ibm.
	* general: added option implicit-assign-dynamic-var.

2019-09-30  Edward Hart <edward.dan.hart@gmail.com>

	* realia.words: removed words belonging to other dialects - word list
	  now matches REALIA6

2019-09-28  Edward Hart <edward.dan.hart@gmail.com>

	* realia.conf, realia-strict.conf, realia.words, Makefile.am: added
	  dialect for CA Realia II

2020-03-31  Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@gnu.org>

	* general: added option special-names-clause

2019-08-11  Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@gnu.org>

	* general: added option hp-octal-literals

2019-06-08  Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@gnu.org>

	* general: removed options json-generate and xml-generate (support is
	  now only depending on the reserved words)

2019-06-02  Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@gnu.org>

	* general: added option records-mismatch-record-clause

2019-05-30  Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@gnu.org>

	* general: FR #311 added options call-convention-mnemonic and
	  call-convention-linkage

2019-05-11  Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@gnu.org>

	* default.conf, lax.conf-inc, mf-strict, rm-strict.conf:
	  increased word-length to 63 per COBOL 202x

2019-04-07  Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@gnu.org>

	* general: FR #354 added continue-after option, set to ok
	  for default/lax only as we won't have a dialect file for COBOL 202x
	  until its final working draft and release date is available

2019-03-18  Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@gnu.org>

	* general: FR #352 added national-character-literals option, set to warning
	  for default/lax only as we still don't have a dialect file for Fujitsu

2019-01-29  Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@gnu.org>

	* runtime.cfg: added COB_DISPLAY_PUNCH_FILE

2019-01-05  Edward Hart <edward.dan.hart@gmail.com>

	* general: added json-generate option

2018-04-12  Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@gnu.org>

	* default.conf: set missing-statement (FR# 244) to warning as older
	  GnuCOBOL versions allowed a partial subset of these

2018-09-11  Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@gnu.org>

	* mf-strict.conf: set missing-statement to error (according to MF docs)

2018-08-07  Edward Hart <edward.dan.hart@gmail.com>

	* general: added xml-generate and xml-generate-extra-phrases options
	* general: marked XML-CODE as implemented

2018-07-13  Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@gnu.org>

	* ibm.words: updated to Enterprise COBOL 6.1 documentation,
	  added notes about coprocessor-only reserved words, made all phrases
	  for XML GENERATE / XML PARSE statements context-sensitive

2018-04-21  Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@gnu.org>

	* general: added symbolic-constant, set to OK for default only
	  as we don't have a dialect file for Fujitsu currently

2018-03-31  Edward Hart <edward.dan.hart@gmail.com>

	* general: added zero-length-literals option

2018-03-09  Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@gnu.org>

	* general: added move-figurative-space-to-numeric, set to OK for
	  ACUCOBOL and MicroFocus

2018-01-14  Ron Norman <rjn@inglenet.com>

	* general: added move-non-numeric-lit-to-numeric-is-zero
	  This changes MOVE SPACE/QUOTE/HIGH-VALUES TO PIC 9 field
	  into MOVE ZERO
	* mf.conf: move-figurative-constant-to-numeric: warn
	  move-non-numeric-lit-to-numeric-is-zero: yes

2018-01-12  Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@gnu.org>

	* acu-strict.conf: changed sticky-linkage to "no"

2018-01-12  Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@gnu.org>

	* general: added missing-statement (FR #288)

2017-12-26  Edward Hart <edward.dan.hart@gmail.com>

	* default.conf, lax.conf-inc: changed screen-section-rules to gc
	  (bug #482)

2017-12-24  Edward Hart <edward.dan.hart@gmail.com>

	* general: added screen-section-rules option (Bug #382)

2017-11-14  Edward Hart <edward.dan.hart@gmail.com>

	* ibm.words, mvs.words, rm.words: fixed bug #476, where WHEN-COMPILED
	  register was hidden by WHEN-COMPILED reserved word

2017-11-10  Edward Hart <edward.dan.hart@gmail.com>

	* general: added binary-comp-1 option (FR #272)

2017-11-02  Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@gnu.org>

	* general: FR #158 added perform-varying-without-by (COBOL2002+)

2017-11-25  Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@gnu.org>

	* default.conf: added aliases HIGH-VALUES/LOW-VALUES/VALUES/ZEROES/ZEROS
	* acu.conf: heavily updated from MF Studio Enterprise reserved word list

2017-11-09  Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@gnu.org>

	* cobol85.words, ibm.words, mf.words, mvs.words, rm.words, xopen.conf:
	  added DEBUG-ITEM to be handled as register

2017-11-06  Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@gnu.org>

	* cobol85.conf, ibm-strict.conf, mvs-strict.conf, mf-strict.conf,
	  rm-strict.conf: fixed "debugging-mode" to be "ok" (only use-for-debugging
	  is obsolete in COBOL 85, debugging-mode became obsolete with COBOL 2002)
	* default.conf: changed use-for-debugging to "ok"
	* runtime.cfg: included COB_SET_DEBUG in the documentation

2017-10-07  Edward Hart <edward.dan.hart@gmail.com>

	* general: added screen-section-rules option.

2017-10-06  Edward Hart <edward.dan.hart@gmail.com>

	* general: added record-delimiter, sequential-delimiters and
	  record-delim-with-fixed-recs options.

2017-09-18  Ron Norman <rjn@inglenet.com>

	* general: Added option for disallowing SELECT ASSIGN and RELATIVE
	  KEY fields to be in other than WORKING-STORAGE locations

2017-09-16  Edward Hart <edward.dan.hart@gmail.com>

	* ibm.words: updated to Enterprise COBOL V6.2.
	* general: added free-redefines-position option.

2017-09-10  Edward Hart <edward.dan.hart@gmail.com>

	* general: added line-col-zero-default and display-special-fig-consts
	  options.

2017-09-09  Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@gnu.org>

	* default.conf, mf-strict.conf: set incorrect-conf-sec-order
	  from "error" to "ok"

2017-08-11  Edward Hart <edward.dan.hart@gmail.com>

	* general: moved all register definitions to the words files.
	* general: added unimplemented registers as reserved words.

2017-08-07  Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@gnu.org>

	* default.conf: set entry-statement from "obsolete" to "ok"

2017-08-06  Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@gnu.org>

	* lax.conf-inc: odo-without-to and incorrect-conf-sec-order set to
	  "at least warning" instead of "ok"

2017-07-29  Edward Hart <edward.dan.hart@gmail.com>

	* bs2000-strict.conf: further corrections.

2017-07-26  Edward Hart <edward.dan.hart@gmail.com>

	* mf.words: updated to Visual COBOL 3.0.
	* bs2000-strict.conf: corrected using actual COBOL2000 manual.

2017-07-20  Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@gnu.org>

	* general: allow GnuCOBOL specific registers for lax dialect
	  configurations

2017-07-18  Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@gnu.org>

	* default.conf: set word-length to most unrestrictive value: 61

2017-07-13  Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@gnu.org>

	* general: added move-figurative-constant-to-numeric and
	  move-figurative-quote-to-numeric option

2017-07-12  Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@gnu.org>

	* general: added settings for registers. mnemonic names and
	  intrinsic functions
	* acu.conf: added (non-standard) mnemonic names for switches

2017-07-03  Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@gnu.org>

	* general: added constant-folding option
	* general: renamed acucobol-literals option to acu-literals

2017-07-02  Ron Norman <rjn@inglenet.com>

	* mf.conf: corrected to have synchronized-clause: ignore

2017-06-29  Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@gnu.org>

	* general: created a "strict" set of vendor dialect configurations,
	  made "normal" vendor dialect configurations lax by allowing *all*
	  words GnuCOBOL can handle *additional* to the not-implemented
	  vendor specific extensions and by allowing use of most features
	  Note: COBOL85, COBOL2002 and COBOL2014 are always "strict"

2017-06-22  Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@gnu.org>

	* general: moved reserved words list from conf files to seperate files,
	  replaced "specify-all-reserved" option by "reserved-words"
	  (special include file);
	  reviewed all word lists, defining aliases where needed and removing
	  mnemonic devices / special registers

2017-06-12  Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@gnu.org>

	* general: renamed "debugging-line" option to "debugging-mode"

2017-06-07  Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@gnu.org>

	* general: added define-constant-directive option

2017-06-05  Edward Hart <edward.dan.hart@gmail.com>

	* general: added incorrect-conf-sec-order option

2017-06-04  Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@gnu.org>

	* general: renamed eject-statement to listing-statements,
	  added title-statement

2017-06-04  Edward Hart <edward.dan.hart@gmail.com>

	* rm.conf: added config file for RM-COBOL

2017-05-22  Ron Norman <rjn@inglenet.com>

	* mf.conf: corrected to have pretty-display: yes

2017-05-13  Edward Hart <edward.dan.hart@gmail.com>

	* general: added numeric-value-for-edited-item

2017-04-26  Ron Norman <rjn@inglenet.com>

	* general: added 'constant-78' to indicate if 78 is allowed and
	  'constant-01' to indicate if 01 CONSTANT is allowed

2017-04-22  Edward Hart <edward.dan.hart@gmail.com>

	* general: added stop-identifier config option

2016-12-26  Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@gnu.org>

	* runtime.conf: FR #191 added COB_EXIT_WAIT and COB_EXIT_MSG

2016-12-16  Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@gnu.org>

	* acu.conf, mf.conf: removed CONSOLE as it is internally used as
	  mnemonic device and therefore should not be in reserved list
	* mf.conf: added COMMAND-LINE as it is in parser

2016-11-19  Edward Hart <edward.dan.hart@gmail.com>

	* general: added use-for-debugging config option

2016-10-25  Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@gnu.org>

	* general: FR #179 added reference-out-of-declaratives option

2016-10-13  Ron Norman <rjn@inglenet.com>

	* general: added arithmetic-osvs option

2016-10-02  Edward Hart <edward.dan.hart@gmail.com>

	* general: added no-echo-means-secure option
	* acu.conf: added aliases for ACCEPT/DISPLAY clauses

2016-09-27  Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@gnu.org>

	* general: FR #173 added pic-length configuration option

2016-08-30  Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@gnu.org>

	* general: added national-literals, hexadecimal-national-literals and
	  hexadecimal-boolean configuration options

2016-08-13  Frank Swarbrick <infocat@@users.sf.net>

	* ibm.conf, mf.conf: patch #50 added UNBOUNDED as context sensitive keyword

2016-08-11  Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@gnu.org>

	* general: renamed relaxed-syntax-check to relax-syntax-checks
	  for supporting the removed -frelax-syntax when set on command line

2016-08-09  Edward Hart <edward.dan.hart@gmail.com>

	* general: added program-name-redefinition and program-prototypes
	  configuration options

2016-07-27  Edward Hart <edward.dan.hart@gmail.com>

	* general: added renames-uncommon-levels configuration option

2016-07-18  Edward Hart <edward.dan.hart@gmail.com>

	* general: added accept-display-extensions and console-is-crt
	  configuration options

2016-06-14  Edward Hart <edward.dan.hart@gmail.com>

	* general: moved uncommon aliases from reserved.c to config files

2016-06-03  Edward Hart <edward.dan.hart@gmail.com>

	* general: added not-exception-before-exception configuration option.

2016-04-24  Edward Hart <edward.dan.hart@gmail.com>

	* general: added recording-modes as context-sensitive words.

2016-03-18  Edward Hart <edward.dan.hart@gmail.com>

	* general: updated comment for reserved to describe how to specify
	  aliases

2016-03-13  Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@gnu.org>

	* acu.conf: added ASSIGN TO devices as context-sensitive words

2016-03-09  Edward Hart <edward.dan.hart@gmail.com>

	* general: added/marked context-sensitive words

2016-02-28  Edward Hart <edward.dan.hart@gmail.com>

	* general: added reserved and specify-all-reserved
	* general: removed cobol85-reserved

2015-12-18  Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@gnu.org>

	* general: added call-overflow

2015-10-25  Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@gnu.org>

	* runtime.cfg: update for documentation
	* runtime_empty.cfg: new empty file for faster startup (used in testsuite)

2015-09-23  Edward Hart <edward.dan.hart@gmail.com>

	* general: added numeric-boolean and acu-literals

2015-07-07  Ron Norman <rjn@inglenet.com>

	* runtime.cfg: added COBPRINTER and COB_DISPLAY_PRINTER

2015-07-06  Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@gnu.org>

	* cobol2014.conf: added new configuration for COBOL 2014 (most values
	  marked as not verified yet)
	* general: added literal-length, numeric-literal-length

2015-03-14  Ron Norman <rjn@inglenet.com>

	* runtime.cfg: add COB_LS_VALIDATE

2015-03-14  Ron Norman <rjn@inglenet.com>

	* runtime.cfg: added all configuration options with documentation

2015-03-10  Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@gnu.org>

	* runtime.cfg: added new configuration type "runtime configuration",
	  runtime.cfg will include all runtime flags and short documentation
	  of these (TODO)

2014-10-29  Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@gnu.org>

	* acu.conf: added new configuration for ACUCOBOL-GT (most values marked as
	  not verified yet)
	* general: added word-length

2014-07-29  Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@gnu.org>

	* general: added accept-update and accept-auto (set to "no" in all
	  configuration files)

2010-06-28  Roger While <simrw@sim-basis.de>

	* MARK - Version 2.0
	* Move to GPL/LGPL 3
	* add information about config options in config/xyz.conf while removing
	  include of default.conf (every conf file now contains all configuration
	  entries)

2007-12-27  Roger While <simrw@sim-basis.de>

	* Mark 1.0 RELEASE

2007-08-23  Roger While <simrw@sim-basis.de>

	* Remove deprecated v023.conf
	  Remove display-sign

2007-01-29  Roger While <simrw@sim-basis.de>

	* Add odo-without-to, default OK, set to unconformable
	  for 85/2002

2006-09-30  Roger While <simrw@sim-basis.de>

	* All conf's : Make filename-mapping default

2006-02-02  Roger While <simrw@sim-basis.de>

	* Add relax-level-hierarchy to ibm.conf, mvs.conf,
	  mf.conf, bs2000.conf

2006-01-20  Roger While <simrw@sim-basis.de>

	* Add relax-level-hierarchy to default.conf
	  Allows mismatched level numbers

2005-12-18  Roger While <simrw@sim-basis.de>

	* Add perform-osvs, sticky-linkage to ibm.conf, mvs.conf

2005-11-25  Roger While <simrw@sim-basis.de>

	* New variable - sticky-linkage
	  New config file - bs2000.conf

2005-11-05  Roger While <simrw@sim-basis.de>

	* New variable - perform-osvs

2005-05-15  Roger While <simrw@sim-basis.de>

	* Do not nest includes. All config files include
	  default.conf. We will need this for individual
	  "not-resrved" words.

2005-05-12  Roger While <simrw@sim-basis.de>

	* Revert cobol2002.conf

2005-05-03  Roger While <simrw@sim-basis.de>

	* default.conf, cobol2002.conf, mf.conf
	  New variable - larger-redefines-ok
	  New variable - relaxed-syntax-check

2005-03-07  Roger While <simrw@sim-basis.de>

	* default.conf, mvs.conf :
	  New variable - not-reserved
	  Document in default.conf
	  CYCLE as not reserved in mvs.conf

2003-08-30  Keisuke Nishida  <kxn30@yahoo.co.jp>

	* gnu.conf: Removed.
	* default.conf: Renamed from default.inc.

2003-08-28  Keisuke Nishida  <kxn30@yahoo.co.jp>

	* v023.conf: New file.

2003-08-09  Keisuke Nishida  <knishida@netlab.jp>

	* gnu.conf, cobol85.conf, cobol2002.conf, mf.conf, mvs.conf: New files.
	* default.inc, Makefile.am: New files.


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