Translating Names

The Header-to-copy utility generally uses the same data and procedure names in the copyfile as in the original C header file. However, there are different standards in the way C and COBOL use names. The Header-to-copy utility generates a new name if the following occur in the C file:

• The same name is used for two different items and the items are not different structures.
• Two names are only differentiated by upper- or lower-case letters
• A name starts with an underscore (automatically translated to hyphen)
• The name is a reserved COBOL word
• Two names are not unique over the first 30 characters

Some of these can be changed by setting the options available.

The new name generated by H2cpy is the old name with a number added to the front. The number is the number of synonyms encountered so far since the original name declaration.