Does Serenity have the source code to IPFC or active support from IBM? I'm
running into a problem where error messages lack context and give line
numbers a dozen lines away from the actual point of error.

If there's a chance of getting a fix then I'll put in a bug report, but
first I'd like to know whether it's a lost cause.

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On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 00:10:33 UTC, Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
wrote:

> Does Serenity have the source code to IPFC or active support from IBM? I'm
> running into a problem where error messages lack context and give line
> numbers a dozen lines away from the actual point of error.

I can't speak authoritatively, but the answer (to both questions) is
almost certainly "no".

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> If there's a chance of getting a fix then I'll put in a bug report,
> but first I'd like to know whether it's a lost cause.

Then put in your bug report? I'ld say there's "a" fix possible. If IPFC
can detect and report the errors in the IPF source files, so can a pre-
and/or postprocessor. IPFC.EXE itself doesn't have to be fixed, albeit
that's obviously the preferred solution.



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On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 00:10:33 UTC, Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
wrote:

> Does Serenity have the source code to IPFC or active support from IBM? I'm
> running into a problem where error messages lack context and give line
> numbers a dozen lines away from the actual point of error.
>
> If there's a chance of getting a fix then I'll put in a bug report, but
> first I'd like to know whether it's a lost cause.
>

What level of IPFC? I have been using it heavily the past few days,
and the error messages are correctly identifying the line numbers.

\OS2TK45\bin\ipfc.exe 227,184 10/04/2001 11:36

Operating System/2 Information Presentation Facility Compiler
Version 4.00.007 Oct 02 2000

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In , on 08/27/2008
at 04:16 AM, "Chuck McKinnis" said:

>What level of IPFC?

Version 4.00.007 Oct 02 2000

>I have been using it heavily the past few days,
>and the error messages are correctly identifying the line numbers.

The problem seems to be more common when there are lots of blank lines.

>\OS2TK45\bin\ipfc.exe 227,184 10/04/2001 11:36

Same here.

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In , on 08/26/2008
at 09:57 PM, spamgate@hotmai1.com (ML) said:

>Then put in your bug report? I'ld say there's "a" fix possible. If IPFC
>can detect and report the errors in the IPF source files, so can a pre-
>and/or postprocessor. IPFC.EXE itself doesn't have to be fixed, albeit
>that's obviously the preferred solution.

FWIW the problem seems to be related to unmatched apostrophes.

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> FWIW the problem seems to be related to unmatched apostrophes.

FWIW/2 that should be detectable by a pre-processor, no matter if it's
actually a FIX or a QI. If that's actually going to be written, don't
forget to include .im'ed files in the pre-processing then.



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