Re: RPG COMP HiLoEq

On May 18, 2020, at 4:56 PM, Mark Waterbury <mark.s.waterbury@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Vern,

You can run, but you cannot hide! :-)

Mark

On Monday, May 18, 2020, 4:48:24 PM EDT, Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

As to why things still exist - maybe MI stands for Must be Interminable!

I'm ducking away from the IBMer's reading this!

Vern

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.

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.

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-

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