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Hi, Barbara:

Given this whole set of problematic scenarios, would it perhaps not be an improvement to have perhaps a new option on the compile commands to allow the RPG IV compiler to at least flag these situations with a WARNING message? Then, at least the programmer could look at those warnings and perhaps take preventive / corrective action accordingly.

Mark S. Waterbury

> On 5/14/2010 8:24 PM, Barbara Morris wrote:
Rory Hewitt wrote:
...
However, if you *don't* have CONST specified, you always have to move the
value from the 10P 0 field into a 5P 0 work field to pass it to the
procedure. Since that process (before you've even called the procedure) will
stop you from passing a value that's> 99999, then the procedure call itself
will never fail. ...
It's true that the procedure call won't fail, but you've just shifted
the problem to the assignment statement where you set up your 5P variable.

If the 10P variable has a value bigger than 99999, you will get an
exception no matter how you try to pass it to a 5P parameter. The
exception will happen either when you copy it to your own 5P variable to
satisfy the non-CONST parameter, or when the compiler copies it to its
5P temporary for the CONST parameter.

So you not only have to manually verify every CONST or VALUE parameter,
you also have to manually verify every assignment. Or, to put it
another way, if for some reason you don't need to manually verify every
assignment, you shouldn't need to verify CONST and VALUE parameters either.

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