Re: Service program signature violations?

[bmorris@xxxxxxxxxx]

>From: "Jon Paris" <Jon.Paris@Partner400.com>
>Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 18:42:06 -0500
>
>My good lady Ms Gantner (the queen of ILE) has pointed out to me that I
>misspoke about hard-coded signatures being a solution.
>
>I had completely forgotten this.  Despite what we thought and taught for
>some time, export *ALL exports the procedures in alphabetical order - not
in
>the sequence encountered.  Consequently unless you add new procedures only
>at the end of the alpha sequence, this won't work as the slot numbers will
>not match those expected by the program.  It will all compile but you be
>forever executing the wrong code.

Jon (the king of ILE?), maybe I'm misunderstanding your point,
but export *ALL isn't related to hard-coded signatures.  With
hard-coded signatures, you assign your own signature (we use
the name of the service program) in your binder source.  The
binder source only has one set of exports, and you always
add new exports at the end, and never remove exports.

Regarding export *ALL, the rule is simple: never use it. :)

Barbara Morris