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Workspace PL/I Compilers
Created by Guest
Created on Jan 24, 2019

RELATED IDEAS

enable compiler-listings without automatic pagefeeds

With COBOL and Assembler you can specify an option of LINECOUNT(0) to stop the compiler from generating automatic pagefeeds. With PL/I you can only sepcify a range from 10 to 32767 lines per page without the possibility to suppress pagebreaks altogether.

Idea priority Low
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Sep 5, 2019

    This was delivered (more or less) in 5.3 by upping the LINECOUNT max value to 64k. With that value, there would be very few page feeds in any listing

  • Guest
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    |     Feb 4, 2019

    we can easily up the limit to 65535, and we will do at least that much

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jan 25, 2019

    We compile with LC(32767) and there isn't a single program that generates more than "one" page of source listing, and I'm personally only aware of one program that would result in two pages of source listing at this linecount. Introducing a LC(0) might have some benefits, but changing from LC(n) to either LC(0) or LC(32767) would require just one change in the compile procedures or compiler options setup, and given that the poster indicates that listings are never printed, I personally don't see the point.

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