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  3. February 2016

Re: AW: Line longer than 80 characters

On 2/12/2016 10:31 AM, Vernon Hamberg wrote:
Birgitta - I think your description of fully-free does not match the
manual - here is the bit from the 7.2 ILE RPG Reference
...
As I read this, **FREE must be in line 1. The entire source text must fe
free-format. And any include member that is limited to columns 6-80 can
be included. That would be either fixed or free format.

Am I missing something? Or did Barbara change something since the last
post in RPG Cafe?


Due to the way SQLRPGLE code is compiled, where the precompiler creates a new source file with the copy files merged in, the compiler actually supports **FREE in the middle of the code.

The compiler can't tell that it was called by a precompiler, so it has to support code other than what is officially supported.

So we document that **FREE has to be in line 1.

RDI only supports having **FREE in line 1. If you have it anywhere else, it won't recognize the fully-free code.


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