Re: RPG File Input/Output Specs

[Simon Coulter <shc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/08/2010, at 8:59 AM, Barbara Morris wrote:

> When it sees the first P spec, it has to generate all the =O specs so
> that they will be available in case one of the later procedures is  
> going
> to do a WRITE or an UPDATE opcode.

This has been festering in the back of my mind ...

Shouldn't the RPG compiler track whether such an operation actually  
occurred in a procedure and if the O-specs are not needed then drop  
them from its internal representation before it gives control to the  
back-end?

Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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