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Status Delivered
Workspace PL/I Compilers
Created by Guest
Created on Mar 13, 2019

Merge the include preprocessor into the macro preprocessor

Non-standard include statements, such as ++INCLUDE for instance, are processed by the include preprocessor.
Standard PL/1 %INCLUDE statements are processed by the macro preprocessor.
This is all fine if all the sources are containing only ++INCLUDE statements, or only %INCLUDE statements.
If both types of include statements are intermingled, includes are not resolved correctly.
Merging the include and macro preprocessor would solve this issue and permit any number (or levels) of intermingled include statements.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    Sep 5, 2019

    this is part of the 5.3 release

  • Guest
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    Mar 15, 2019

    If we add the ID option from INCLUDE preprocessor to the MACRO preprocessor, that should fix this problem