Re: Advantages of RPG

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Nick

There are header options that control this behavior - something like that - so it might behave differently for you than for Jerry. Nothing to do with a particular debugger - STRISDB and STRDBG work against the same program object.

Vern

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From: Nick_Radich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 

> Jerry, 
>
> Not true. 
>
> "Now a really cool thing is that if you don't reference a field in the 
> program, and try to debug the program and try to display a non-referenced 
> variable, even though it is in the record read, that variable isn't 
> available to the debugger. That's because the compiler is smart enough to 
> know that an unreferenced variable isn't used and therefore shouldn't 
> waste memory. (How's that for preemptive garbage collection/prevention!)" 
>
> I just debugged a program, using STRDBG, that I am only using one field 
> from the file. I am able to display any field I choose from the file. 
>
> I believe with STRISDB that was true, though I am not sure. 
>
> I am on V4R5 (old):-) 
>
>
>
>
> Thanx, 
>
> Nick