Re: Egads! An area in which the precompiler people surpassed the compiler people!

[rob@xxxxxxxxx]

Hans,

I think I understand what PPGENOPT is.  I don't think that is what Aaron 
is asking for.  Because on PPGENOPT you still have to put that on your 
compilation command.  And, if you're not using a change management tool, 
then you, and the rest of your staff, have to remember that whenever you 
compile a program, be it from:  PDM, CODE, WDSC, tool-of-the-day.

H specs get by that crud.

Don't worry Hans, I'm pretty sure that the preprocessor people will come 
out with options that should be available via SET OPTION but will come up 
with the same excuse that you have on TGTRLS.

Rob Berendt
-- 
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary 
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." 
Benjamin Franklin 




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Buck wrote:

>>The word that jumps out at me is "precompiler".
>>Would it be possible to have a precompiler on the RPG side of things?
> 
> 
> Henrik Krebs published a precompiler some years ago.  The concept is 
that
> you create a routing entry in a batch subsystem which registers its own
> command processing program.  Then you receive the request messages.  If 
the
> message is CRTBNDRPG, you parse the parms, open the source member and 
read
> from it.  You capture specially formatted comments which you then can 
use to
> create a completely different job stream.  One can readily have 
pre-compile
> commands, compiler parameters and post-compile commands so you could
> conceivably do:...

I'm sure Aaron wants something in the RPG compiler like option 
PPGENOPT in the CRTCMOD command. At least, I hope that's what he's 
asking for.  ;-)

Cheers! Hans


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