Re: pragma convert of string literal

[Mike Amos <yl_mra@xxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry that I'm getting in on this thread late. I've been swamped the 
last several weeks.

The TGTCCSID designates the CCSID of the data, such as literals, stored 
in the module.

See the Targeting a CCSID section in the ILE C/C++ Programmers Guide for 
detailed information. Note that C allows only EBCDIC CCSIDs and will 
default to 037 if an ANSI CCSID is used. C++ accepts both EBCDIC and 
ANSI, stores the data appropriately and then defaults to 65535.

The TGTCCSID allows the use of one source code module to be used for 
multiple NLS builds so that I can use the same source and make builds 
specific for English, Spanish, Portuguese, etc.

Be careful in that the default is *SOURCE.

Mike

On 03/04/2011 09:52 AM, Erik Olsson wrote:
> I'm having problems with #pragma convert.
>
> I'm compiling a C module using a source file with CCSID 865 residing
> in the IFS. My job CCSID is 278, I'm on 6.1. The CCSID of the module
> is 37, regardless of what I'm specifying on the TGTCCSID command.
>
> Even though I have this:
> #pragma convert(278)
>    char *specchars = "ÉÜÅÄÖ";
> #pragma convert(0)
>
> ... the hex representation of this string is "3542a2075", when it
> should read "e0fc5b7b7c", i.e. no conversion to CCSID 278 is taking
> place. I don't see any caveats in the manual that could explain this
> behaviour.
>
> Suggestions anyone? For now I'm using direct hex comparison instead
> but I'd prefer to get the pragma working.
>
> Regards,
> Erik