Re: Accessing externally described file in a C program

["Simon Coulter" <shc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello patrick

You wrote:
>1) you can have the C compiler put automatically create a structure for
>the database file like this:

>  #pragma mapinc("sesn", "alsrvr(*all)", "both key", "d")
>  #include "sesn"

Be warned that #pragma mapinc has been deprecated/removed in newer
versions of the compiler (IIRC from 510 onwards).  IBM have provided a
command/program to create a #include file based on the external file
definition but that's just an ugly work-around.

That's part of the downside to PASE.  AIX compilers can be ported easily
so we get a 'more compatible' C compiler but we lose support for AS/400
specific stuff.

Regards,
Simon Coulter.

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