RE: Prototyped Procedures

["Bob Cozzi" <cozzi@xxxxxxxxx>]

Steve, 
You did have the source for the structure you were passing, right?
Wouldn't you check that DS just like you would Factor 1, 2 and the result
field entries on any old OpCode? 
Sometimes source is important for debugging as you indicated but as a
blanket statement that it should always be there for you to see and embedded
in code (such as the case with Prototypes in the Implementation source) is
too cluttered for me. 
I'd rather compartmentalize things and then step-into it as needed.
Should there be a debug-version of the C runtime library that allows you to
step into it and see what you've passed in?  Yes. But that isn't in-line
code (all-in-one source) which was my take on the original inquiry.
-Bob



-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Steve Richter
Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2005 8:38 AM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: Prototyped Procedures

On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 09:25:33 -0330, RPower@xxxxxxxxxx <RPower@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> As someone who once worked in the softwarehouse schema, I have to disagree
> with:
> > 2) Consumers only need the prototypes. They have no business looking
> at
> > the implementation in a properly designed interface.
> 
> If I'm debugging, I had better be able to see the source code of the
> modules I'm calling.
> 
> As a person creating a program with cutting edge technology, exactly why
> would I want you to be able to see the source code?  For that matter why
> would you want ot be debugging it?  That's what customer support is for
> isn't it?

I have been working with the record i/o "C" functions recently. In my
testing I was getting some error messages that had no relation to what
I was asking the function to do.  Turns out, I was filling an option
parameter with the incorrect value.    But I could not use the
debugger to find this bug because IBM does not provide the source code
to it C runtime function library.

-Steve
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