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  3. September 2004

More loss of function in C compiler

Not content with removing compiler support for externally described database files now we have to contend with debug function being removed.

Version 4 allowed OPTION(*EXPMAC) with DBGVIEW(*LIST) which was very useful when debugging macro code.

Version 5 (510) exhibited problems (MCH0601 pointer errors) in some cases with this combination of parameters. IBM solution is to not use that combination and they intend to disallow that combination in some future release. See:

http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss? uid=nas1d25be446febe5c8c86256ce50053e553&rs=110

That future release would appear to be 530 with message CZS2119 so macro debugging is no longer allowed. So much for the bloody marvellous AIX C compiler that would make porting C code to OS/400 easier.

Don't fix the problem--just stop it from occurring and remove previously working behaviour in the process. Thanks a bloody lot IBM!

Who else finds this attitude unacceptable? What can we do about it? This defect should be fixed instead of just being masked.

Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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