Re: Question about legacy coding style

["Jim Franz" <jfranz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

in S36 code that would be
C  U1NU1     MOVE     X2DAT     X2DAT     6 0

and your probably correct - to define a field & someone felt it must never 
be executed...

In the 80's i did one of these in a subroutine executed 1st time into 
calcs..

C                    MOVE    *ZEROS     X2DAT     6 0
or
C                     Z-ADD  0                  X2DAT     6 0

Jim Franz
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Craig Pelkie" <craig@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2011 11:20 PM
Subject: Question about legacy coding style


> This is in some old code we are looking at:
>
> C U1
> CANNU1 MOVE X2DAT X2DAT 6 0
>
> C U1
> CANNU1 MOVE X2UDAT X2UDAT 6 0
>
> C U1
> CANNU1 MOVE X2TDT2 X2TDT2 6 0
>
> C U1
> CANNU1 MOVE X2DDAT X2DDAT 6 0
>
>
> It looks like an obscure way to define a field.
>
> What was the reasoning behind defining it like this?
>
> Thanks,
> Craig Pelkie
>
>
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