Re: Overlaying a DS Array In a LIKEREC DS -- RPG400-L

Subject: Re: Overlaying a DS Array In a LIKEREC DS
From: Barbara Morris <bmorris@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2010 10:47:38 -0400
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On 7/6/2010 8:29 AM, Michael D. Schutte wrote:

What is there to reconsider? If I remove that HSPEC, the array is
still populated. The only thing I don't get is the dump that I
requested in the CSPECS.

The OVERLAY(MYDS) keyword causes MYDS to be referenced, and that causes the compiler to load all the subfields of MYDS.

Arguably it's a bug in the compiler that it thinks a reference due to overlay should affect whether I spec fields get loaded or not, but the compiler tries to err on the side of caution for this I spec optimization.

Michael, you could code DUMP(A) and you wouldn't need the DEBUG keyword to get the dump.

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