Re: [Re: RPGILE V4.3 Gotcha]

> You could always stick to the traditional ADD, SUB, MULT, etc
> opcodes.  But since the default behavior of those is to
> truncate results instead of failing on numeric overflow,
> those opcodes are the real unsafe ones!

It depends upon what you're trying to accomplish. Imagine if MULT always
failed on overflow. How many programs are out there that used MULT 100.0001
or MULT 10000.01 to flip a date around? In one sense, any opcode is "unsafe"
if you don't understand what it's doing. I remember waaaay back when
learning RPG after knowing COBOL, and expecting MOVE to MOVEL with Padding!

Peter Dow
Dow Software Services, Inc.
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