Re: RPG COMP HiLoEq

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

LOL

On 5/18/2020 3:56 PM, Mark Waterbury wrote:
> Vern,
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> You can run, but you cannot hide!  :-)
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> Mark
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> > On Monday, May 18, 2020, 4:48:24 PM EDT, Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> As to why things still exist - maybe MI stands for Must be Interminable!
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> I'm ducking away from the IBMer's reading this!
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> Vern
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> On 5/18/2020 11:20 AM, Jon Paris wrote:
> > Under the covers RPG400 uses the single CMPNV MI instruction to do the whole thing. The curious can take Brabara's code and compile with GENOPT(*LIST) then look for the relevant BRK statement.
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> > The docs for CMPNV state that it will "Assign a value to each of the indicator operands (indicator form)." in other words all of the indicators receive a new value - but it might be the same value that was there before.
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> > I am SO happy we got rid of that horrible crap in RPG IV.  It will however remain a mystery to me as to why those programs still exist - let alone get maintained rather than converted!
> -snip-