Re: V7.1 RPG error with CONST parameter

On 2/23/2011 12:44 PM, Barbara Morris wrote:

On 2/22/2011 2:57 PM, Joe Pluta wrote:

Thanks, Jon, I should have realized that. Our Toronto office was closed
for Family Day. And as you've seen, Barbara has responded. I'll try to
get the PTF she mentioned and see what happens.

Joe

Ah, I was reading the posts for this thread out of order. Joe, I
thought you were waiting for yet another post from me. Although ... it
was only the part about DFTACTGRP(*YES) that triggered me to respond in
the first place; without that, I probably would have stuck to my policy
of staying out of bug-related threads.

I'll be honest, I didn't realize your policy. But then again, there are very few bugs in the compiler that I ever come across, so it's a relatively small universe of issues that might have been examples. In fact, in my experience over several decades it's been such a small universe that I was simply asking for confirmation that my analysis was correct before beginning the PMR process. I just wanted to be sure that I should have seen the value being passed from the previous level.

I recognize this is a hair's-breadth distinction. Confirming that correct behavior is not what is occurring is effectively confirming that the behavior is incorrect; i.e., that a bug exists. So in the future I'll avoid directing such inquiries towards you and instead I'll rely on the (vast!) experience of the list.

Joe