Re: FREE Opcode

[rick.baird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Justin,

It's my understanding that the free opcode did very little, and is now
obsolete.

it might do 'something' in the OPM program, but not what you might think it
would.

My advice would be to test the program before and after removing the opcode
and see if you get the same results.

here is a discussion in the archives on just this subject:

http://archive.midrange.com/rpg400-l/200002/threads.html#00141

hth,

Rick

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Hi Everyone,
I have an RPGIII program that I have converted to RPGIV.
The problem is that the RPGIII program uses the FREE opcode. I have read
the responses in the archives about passing no parameters to the FREED
program so it can set on the LR indicator. That would work great, but I
do not have the source code for the FREED program. I thought of a
workaround, creating an RPGIII program that will contain the free
command and accept the program name to be freed. This RPGIII program
will get called from the RPGIV program in the same location the FREE
command used to be. I tried this and it did not work. Should this work?
I know I am missing something. Is this a valid workaround for my
situation? Thanks in advance.