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Source Transformation Integrity in Legacy COBOL Systems: A Static Analysis Approach to Detecting Format-Dependent Semantic Divergence

The compilation format flag for COBOL fixed-format source code is not stored in the source file — it lives in the build system, CI configuration, or operator invocation. When that flag changes, the positional semantics of column 7 (the indicator area) change with it: a comment un...