RE: BrainStorming on changes/addtions

[Mark Lazarus <mlazarus@xxxxxxxx>]

Jon,

At 11:33 AM 8/24/99 -0400, you wrote:
> >>>The command options NOT allowed on the H-Spec are: PGM, MODULE, SRCFILE,
>SRCMBR, DBGVIEW, OUTPUT, REPLACE, TGTRLS, and DEFINE.

> >> Is there a particular reason that DBGVIEW is not allowed?

>Yes - I'm told it is because the debug template is built by the command
>processor and is already in place before the first line of source has been
read.
>This can (and may in future) be changed but there was not enough resource
to do
>it in V4R2.

>Target release is a similar story but much harder (read near impossible)
to fix
>without incurring a major overhead in compile time. Reason being that the
>command processor switches the library list so that a different compiler is
>called (i.e. the Old compiler) - all the work done to date would have to be
>thrown away and the compile restarted to make it work.

 This may be a simple suggestion, but how about changing the compiler
initialization routine to read the H spec before doing any other
constructive work?

 -mark

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