BUILTIN is a way to tell the compiler that what ever something like SUBSTR 
doesn’t need to be resolved outside of the object 

Sent from my iPhone

No one said I could type with one thumb 

> On Nov 15, 2023, at 11:33, Binyamin Dissen <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> A PL/I source code member has 
> 
>           DCL foobar BUILTIN
> 
> and must be compiled with RULES(LAXDCL)
> 
> I see no reference to FOOBAR as a function call. 
> 
> My question is if FOOBAR was invoked, what does the BUILTIN clause do? A
> different calling sequence? Looking for an internal label?
> 
> --
> Binyamin Dissen <[email protected]>
> http://www.dissensoftware.com
> 
> Director, Dissen Software, Bar & Grill - Israel
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,
> send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

----------------------------------------------------------------------
For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,
send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Reply via email to