RE: SrvPgm Procedure Prototype change - update program?

[Kurt Anderson <kurt.anderson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the input.
For better or worse, I now put ExtProc(*CL) on every exported service program procedure that has a 1 byte return value so I don't run into this issue again.

-Kurt

-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David Gibbs
Sent: Friday, November 06, 2009 4:04 PM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i / System i
Subject: Re: SrvPgm Procedure Prototype change - update program?

Kurt Anderson wrote:
> I recently had to change a service program Prototype to use
> EXTPROC(*CL).  Without recompiling all of the programs that use this
> service program (and most of them use the procedure in question), is
> there a way to update the programs?

I'm 99% sure that, if you change the prototype in that way, you'll have to recompile the programs that use it.  You're changing the calling convention for the procedure.

If you were just adding optional parameters, you wouldn't have to recompile the programs that call it.

david