Re: RPG 7.1 CONST problem ** RESOLVED **

On 2/24/2011 11:26 AM, Barbara Morris wrote:

On 2/24/2011 12:09 PM, Joe Pluta wrote:

Yes. Think about it: wouldn't it be the same as executing a program
with ACTGRP(*CALLER) in *DFTACTGRP? I haven't seen such a thing blow up,
although it's a discouraged practice.

It's not quite the same. Programs created with DFTACTGRP(*YES) get
deactivated when they end with LR on or abnormally, and there are things
that bound procedures can do that cause problems during this
deactivation. (Things that I never really understood.)

So this rule for the RPG compiler about DFTACTGRP(*YES) is not at all
related to the discouraged practice of *CALLER programs that run in the
default activation group.

So a program with DFTACTGRP(*YES) has a procedure and ends with LR. The program is deactivated but the procedure has done something that might cause havoc in the deactivation.

Now instead that same program calls a program with DFTACTGRP(*CALLER) which has bound procedures. When the calling program ends with LR and gets deactivated, would not the same caveats apply? Or is it different because the procedure is actually part of the program that is deactivated?

Not that it's a terribly important distinction, since the issue will be moot once the compiler again disallows such programs. But I like to understand these things :).

Joe