GNU COBOL 2.0 (and 2.1/reportwriter) is different from GNU COBOL 1.1,
and in my opinion the old behaviour is correct.
Consider the following program:
identification division.
program-id. modemask.
environment division.
input-output section.
file-control.
select modemask-file assign to "modemask.out".
data division.
file section.
fd modemask-file.
01 modemask-out pic x(80).
procedure division.
main section.
10. open output modemask-file.
move "Hello World" to modemask-out.
write modemask-out.
close modemask-file.
stop run.
$ cobc --version
cobc (GNU Cobol) 2.0.0
Copyright (C) 2001,2002,2003,2004,2005,2006,2007 Keisuke Nishida
Copyright (C) 2006-2012 Roger While
Copyright (C) 2009,2010,2012,2014 Simon Sobisch
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
Built Feb 11 2015 11:36:40
Packaged Jan 20 2014 07:40:53 UTC
C version "4.9.1"
$
$ cobc -x -free modemask.cob
$ ./modemask
$ ls -l modemask.out
-rwxr-xr-x 1 harald harald 80 Feb 12 18:21 modemask.out
$
$ rm modemask.out
$ cobc --version
cobc (GNU Cobol) 1.1.0
Copyright (C) 2001,2002,2003,2004,2005,2006,2007 Keisuke Nishida
Copyright (C) 2006-2012 Roger While
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
Built Feb 11 2015 11:35:47
Packaged Jan 20 2014 07:40:53 UTC
C version "4.9.1"
$
$ cobc -x -free modemask.cob
$ ./modemask
$ ls -l modemask.out
-rw-r--r-- 1 harald harald 80 Feb 12 18:23 modemask.out
$
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