Собственно, сабж: https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-COBOL-2023 .
James Lowden published a GCC COBOL status update on Monday for supporting this programming language with the GNU Compiler Collection. The developers involved have been working to support the ISO 2023 COBOL specification and getting their compiler support to pass an increasing number of COBOL test cases.
The COBOL 2023 standard brought asynchronous messaging, the XOR logical operator, a DELETE FILE statement, boolean shifting operators, a transaction processing facility, and other features.
Looking ahead to next year, GCC COBOL developers are planning to work on user acceptance testing, support for EXEC SQL, updated GDB debugger support, and any changes needed as part of upstream GCC code review.
