RE: Optimize *FULL

-----Original Message-----
From: Rory Hewitt [mailto:roryhewitt@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 10:43 PM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: Optimize *FULL


Steve,

Excellent news - thanks very much. It's interesting that I got more
information from you than I have from IBM directly... There's not exactly a
lot of information on the precompiler API's out there...

you asked IBM supportline? They are the best part of the company. I always get 
my questions to supportline in email form. That makes it easy for the level 1 
person who does not know the answer to pass the question onto someone who does.

note in the response from the IBM support person that the associated
space APIs are not recommended. I did not believe him and went on to
find out that "not recommended" means they dont work. ;)

I'm still going to try to get the PAS API's to work, dammit! Even if it
kills me (which it well might - I've been sick for days, and this isn't
helping)...

you'll learn ;)   think about what the IBMer is saying at the end of this 
paragraph:

"...We recommend that API qbnAddAssociatedSpaceEntry not be used.  Instead, 
when the customer-written preprocessor is copying source statements 
from A to B, we recommend that it add whatever data it needs directly 
into the source code. ..."

your preprocessor can add as much code and constants as it wants to the module 
being compiled. That added code can have no effect on the running of the 
module. It is only used to store the info you want to place of the associated 
space.  You then use the debugger view APIs to create a debug view that 
excludes the added code and constants. 
 
-Steve