Re: RPG III (RPG/400)

On 02-Nov-2015 14:35 -0600, Vincent Forbes wrote:

One of the things I found is that working RPG III programs, after
conversion, all of a sudden can fail due to value "overflow". That
was a bonus since it located a long time hidden bug.

It does not take a lot of effort to get rid of.

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Was not that overflow error prevented with the Truncate Numeric (TRUNCNBR) specification of *YES, so as to "Ignore numeric overflow and move the truncated value to the result field" [to mimic] just like what happened in the older RPG? And that parameter specification defaulted to *YES, so that problem would not become an issue for that calculation with the newer compiler, unless explicitly changed was the default or the explicit specification to the value of *NO, asking to cause the overflow error to be exposed at run-time? I was too lazy to test; but interested enough to overcome my laziness to look up the parameter name, the parameter help text, and the default :-)