RE: cant save v5r1 rpg pgm to *prv release

["Steve Richter" <srichter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: rpg400-l-admin@midrange.com [mailto:rpg400-l-admin@midrange.com]On
Behalf Of Barbara Morris

>The *PRV compilers are built using the compiler source from the previous
>release.  That way, the *PRV object is guaranteed to run on the previous
>release (with respect to the RPG runtime that is - it's still possible
>to code a call to some API that is only in the current release).

>Here's how it was explained to me when I first heard about *PRV
>compilers, and I think it still holds: the most important aspect of the
>*PRV compiler is that any code that compiles with the *PRV compiler must
>compile on the actual TGTRLS system.  Otherwise, if vendors developed
>code on an N machine and sent objects and source to their customers on
>N-1 systems, the vendors would be unable to verify that their customers
>would actually be able to compile the source.


It would be neat and very useful to the customer if the v5r1 compiler could
be instructed to output the ile intermediate code, then take that
intermediate code and compile it using the intermediate code compiler to the
*PRV release.  The thinking and question being that QUALIFIED and LIKEDS
dont do anything v5r1 specific that creates intermediate code that cant be
compiled to the *prv release.

Is this ILE technically possible?


thanks,

Steve Richter