Getting started with cobol GnuCOBOL installation with GNU/Linux ACCEPT statement ADD statement ALLOCATE statement ALTER statement CANCEL statement CALL statement COMMIT statement COMPUTE statement CONTINUE statement COPY directive String DELETE statement DIVIDE statement DISPLAY statement EVALUATE statement EXIT statement GENERATE statement FREE statement GO TO statement GOBACK statement IF statement INITIALIZE statement INITIATE statement INSPECT statement MERGE statement MOVE statement MULTIPLY statement OPEN statement PERFORM statement READ statement RELEASE statement RETURN statement REPLACE directive REWRITE statement SET statement SEARCH statement SORT statement START statement SUBTRACT statement STOP statement TERMINATE statement STRING statement SUPPRESS statement UNLOCK statement Intrinsic Functions UNSTRING statement USE statement WRITE statement Data division How does the computational work in cobol?

CANCEL statement

Remarks:

The CANCEL statement ensures that a referenced program will be in an initial state the next time it is called, and to unload any resources for the module.

CANCEL statement

CALL "submodule"
CALL "submodule"

CANCEL "submodule"
CALL "submodule"

Any static data in the working set of submodule will be in an initial state on the last CALL statement above. The second CALL will have any initial values set as left overs from the first CALL.

COBOL compilers can support physical cancel (object unloaded from memory) and/or virtual cancel (ensure an initial state, but leave the object available to the host operating environment). This is an implementation detail.

See http://open-cobol.sourceforge.net/faq/index.html#cancel for more details.

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