Re: You know, I'm pretty sure it's zoned...

----- Original Message -----
From: <bmorris@ca.ibm.com>
To: <rpg400-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 2:00 PM
Subject: Re: You know, I'm pretty sure it's zoned...


> Please elucidate.  As far as I know, the reason the compiler continues
> to use the same old rules for numeric formats is exactly the way
> Doug explained it.  Whatever the reasons for the RPG compiler behaving
> the way it did in the past, upward compatibility keeps it behaving the
> same way now.  That's upward compatibility of source AND non-recompiled
> objects.

Forward and backward compatability don't have anything to do with it. Non
recompiled objects also don't have anything to do with it. It's the act of
compiling that causes this to appear.

I insert :
D   field       s   10s 0
into the code and it all works.

this statement maps the field that was already declared as 10s 0 in the DDS
and copied into the program. The compiler subverted my efforts in the first
place. This code is just as forward and backward compatible as anything
else, it's just an added declaration. Redundant at best, and a problem
waiting to happen later at worst.

> Regarding the compiler interpreting the same prototype differently
> in different source members, here's how I would do the /copy file
> for a prototype that had definitions dependent on F-spec fields:
>
> D               E DS            PREFIX(typeOf_MYFILE_)
> D                               EXTNAME(MYFILE)
> D                               based(dummy)
>
> D proc            PR
> D   parm                        LIKE(typeOf_MYFILE_fld1)
> D   parm                        LIKE(typeOf_MYFILE_fld2)
>
> You'd still have a problem in your scenario, but at least you'd find
> out at compile time.

Oh, so now you want me to add even more lines of code to copy book and still
have the same problem? <LOL>

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R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr.
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 -- IBM Certified Specialist - RPG IV Developer

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