Re: Conversion to free-form

[Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The Arcad tool will however convert GOTOs beyond the simple subroutines exit style.

But because it does a lot more code re-engineering than Linoma it is a lot more expensive.


Jon Paris

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> On Apr 13, 2016, at 4:27 PM, Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Not so much....it doesn't try to convert them all.
>
> GOTO operations which jump to the end of subroutines
> (tag in an ENDSR operation) will be converted.  These
> GOTOs will be converted to:
>
> LEAVESR operations if the target IBM i release is V4R4
> or higher and if subroutines are not converted to
> sub-procedures with CVTSUBR(*NO).
>
> RETURN operations if subroutines are also converted to
> sub-procedures with CVTSUBR(*YES).
>
> The tag values will not be removed from the ENDSR
> operations (to accomodate CABxx operations).
>
>
> Charles
>
> On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 4:15 PM, Mark Murphy/STAR BASE Consulting Inc. <
> mmurphy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Wow, convert GOTO operations? I bet that can get dicey!
> >
> > Mark Murphy
> > STAR BASE Consulting, Inc.
> > mmurphy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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