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Steve Landess wrote:
Thus the thread topic "Feature or Bug". Barbara - can you shed some light
on this?
Yep, I can. When it generates the O specs for output-capable files, the
RPG compiler has an optimization where it only generates the O specs for
record formats that have been used in the program. When it finds a P
spec, it doesn't know yet which record formats might be used in the
procedures, so it generates the O specs for all possible output records.
Not a bug; not really a feature either. It's an offshoot of the fact
that the RPG compiler is a single-pass compiler. If it was a
double-pass compiler, it would know what was going to happen in the
subprocedures before it got around to generating the O specs.
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