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  3. September 2004

RE: What happens to unused constants?

> The debugger won't let you display CONST's anyway, whether or not
> they are in the program... so "keeping them" is really pointless.

Can't remember the exact term ("constant folding" I think) but I believe the
compiler and/or translator do some work to reduce the number/size of
constants by commoning them up etc.  Things like having a single constant of
'123' when the program used '123', '12', '1', '2', etc.

Hans or Barbara would have the real skinny for the current RPG compiler.

Jon Paris
Partner400
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