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Posted by Jim Guerber on March 14, 2012 at 10:54:41:

In Reply to: Re: comet 32 erroneous run time errors posted by Steven Hagen on March 14, 2012 at 08:18:18:

Steve,

When you compile programs in c32, please do not expect them to run exactly the same as when they were compiled in c16. Comet32 IB has many new features and it is an entirely different animal than c16. Some things will just not work the same. It is also a much newer product than c16, so expect to encounter unexplained differences. We have tried to document those differences on our WIKI, but there may be other, more subtle differences as well.

If you encounter a problem, it is not sufficient to send us your mega line listings and an error summary. We expect you will "dig in" further and distill the problem to its essential content with a small test program. When we debug one of these issues, most of our time is spent trying to understand just what you had in mind when writing the program. As you know, without use files and data files, we can't even run your programs.

This is a great example of what I mean. From what I can decipher, your program gets the variable INBR$ from somewhere, then filters it using various sub string results and if no filter matches, it does a read with INBR$ as the key. If that gets an exception, it goes to an excp handler which errors out.

Please use the trace facility in c32 and find out what is going on with INBR$. Then, build a small (less than 20 lines) program that illustrates the problem and post it to this forum. From that, we can fix it if it is really a problem.

AS we have said many times, our goal with Comet32 is to be as compatible as possible with programs that were compiled with Comet16. When compiling in Comet32, you will see many other differences.



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