RE: Debugging & file I/O BIF's like %EOF, %FOUND

["Phil" <sublime78ska@xxxxxxxxx>]

Phil, thanks for responding.

>
> Phil, the key to understanding this is to think of BIFs as nothing more
> than IBM-supplied sub-procedures, which
> indeed they are. They are simply IBM-supplied functions which the RPG
> runtime executes as it encounters them.
> Asking the debugger to show their return value is the same as asking it to
> show the return value of your own
> sub-procedures.

I'm only talking about the file I/O bif's.  That's all.  Not %subst or any
of that ilk.

The program obviously knows what the result is!  And so does the file
feedback ds!  Why can't the debugger use that same info?

Wouldn't it be cool if we could add the infds (and the psds) to the debugger
without it being coded in the program!  Kind of like calling a program in
verbose mode.  :)

Thanks again for your time,

Phil



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