Re: [MI400] What is GENCSRC?

["Simon Coulter" <shc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Hello Phil,

You wrote:
>Having the external structure in a living breathing #include file created
>by the GENSRC is better than having to do: #mapinc, compile, then cut &
>paste from the spoolfile generated from the compile into your source them
>modify the structure...

What am I missing?  #pragma mapinc builds a struct directly in the code
based on the external definition of a database file.  Thus changing the
file definition means a simple recompile of the source keeps things
synchronized.  Why would I ever want to modify the file mapping structure
directly?  I have never had to perform the cut-and-paste method you
describe when using DB files and C.

The GENCSRC requires an additional step: modify the DB file, GENCSRC,
compile programs.  Yuck!  So much for one advantage of externally described
files.

It strikes me that this is another move to remove AS/400 stuff from the C
compiler so IBM can maintain a single compiler for all platforms.  Didn't
they try that with SAA RPG and all we got was RPG II?  The new C++ compiler
requires PASE, I can see the C compiler doing the same thus forcing a
lowest common demoninator approach -- If it ain't in Unix/Linux then it
won't be in the compiler.

I think I'll take David up on his request for a IMHO (although
not-so-humble in my case).

Regards,
Simon Coulter.

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