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On 08/05/2010, at 10:33 PM, Chris Hird wrote:
I use #Mapinc all the time on V6R1?
Hmm ... that made me stop. My current understanding was that it had
gone with VRM510 and that GENCSRC was provided instead. Your comment
made me question that understanding. I see the 510 C/C++ Programmer's
Guide states:
Note: #pragma mapinc will be phased out in future releases. It is
recommended
that you use the GENCSRC utility.
I expect that is the source of my belief. To me that appears to be a
statement of direction and intending to remove a useful feature (even
if OS/400-specific) is just as bad as actually removing it.
I see the 610 C/C++ Programmer's Guide no longer has this note but
does state that mapinc is available only in C and not in C++ (not a
big deal in my view since I hate C++ even more than C). Perhaps IBM
has changed direction and no longer intends to phase mapinc out?
I note Appendix A. attempts to give the impression that GENCSRC is
somehow better than mapinc. Won't convince me. How can a static
definition that must be updated whenever the file definition changes
be better than having the compiler determine the layout at compile-time?
I did a quick search of the archives and see that I knew it had not
yet been dropped at 530 but I honestly don't recall that--I must be
getting old.
Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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