Re: BINDED definition question -- RPG400-L

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It is BINDEC Alan and should be avoided like the plague. It has been deprecated in all but officialese.

It is simply the free-form definition for the old B data type which is a legacy from the days before RPG had real integer support.

It is horribly inefficient as the value is copied to a packed field before use, the operation performed, and the value copied back to binary form.

Jon P.

On Mar 16, 2023, at 9:10 AM, Alan Cassidy <cfuture@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I just now noticed this data definition keyword.

Do I understand correctly that this data type is stored internally as if it were an integer but when used it shows with the number of//decimal//places specified?

--Alan Cassidy

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