Re: C on the AS400 over the years.

[Dave McKenzie <davemck@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

System C was an old pre-ILE compiler, no longer in existence.

Today, CRTCMOD compiles C to a module, and CRTPGM binds modules (written 
in any ILE language) into a program.

--Dave

Steve Moland wrote:
> I've got a two-fingered grip on the question I'm asking so please coerce
> some of pieces of the question if needed be to postulate an answer.
>  
> We wrote some C stuff back in the early 90s and I was involved in
> writing a client server application. I wrote the client side in RPG and
> the someone else wrote the server side. I'm a bit familiar with C but
> since I did not actually write the server side I'm fuzzy on some
> details.
>  
> I seem to recall that way back that C400 did not have good file reading
> (perhaps stream processing) capabilities so we wrote that stuff in
> something called System C.  I can find procedures that reference having
> to do stuff that I don't think is being done in the code today. 
>  
> While trying to find the CL program to do the MAKE (LINK) I came across
> one with this in it.
> /* This procedure will link the XXXXX program using CRTSYSCPGM  */
>  
> I can not find a CRTSYSCPGM on the system.
>  
> I'm pretty sure that all the C code is ILE stuff today. Might I assume
> that the following MAKE (LINK) program
> is what is probably used today.
>  
>  /* This procedure will link the XXXXX program using CRTPGM  */
>  
> Steve Moland