RE: /FREE RPG compiler errors

Lets not forget about the %DIV bif it does not work like the DIV op-code as
the first impression of the name might suggest.  

What bothers me the most is that IBM should not have named a bif like an
op-code and not have it perform the same function.  

Thank you,
Matt Tyler
WinCo Foods, Inc
mattt@wincofoods.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Barbara Morris [mailto:bmorris@ca.ibm.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 08:40
To: rpg400-l@midrange.com
Subject: Re: /FREE RPG compiler errors

"mlazarus=Z876VzW3xUs@public.gmane.org" wrote:
>> 1. As someone already pointed out in this thread, the bifs often don't
work exactly the same way as the opcodes.  Doing a conversion would
usually require some recoding and would always require a lot of testing.
>
>  I think that that would be less of an issue, since most do work the same.

Actually, most don't work the same.  There are little differences.  For
example
- LOOKUP sets %FOUND but %LOOKUP doesn't. 
- XLATE doesn't change the size of a varying result field but assigning
%XLATE to something does, because EVAL does.