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Workspace PL/I Compilers
Created by Guest
Created on Dec 6, 2018

RELATED IDEAS

new LIMITS-STRING-Suboption 64K

the compiler option limits(string(64K)) should be also allowed
VARYING strings could then still have a 2-byte prefix, but the compiler and library code would treat that length prefix as UNSIGNED FIXED BIN(16).

in this case the compiler should use a 2-byte unsigned length variable - therefore up to 64K strings are possible

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    |     Sep 5, 2019

    this is part of the 5.3 release

  • Guest
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    |     Dec 18, 2018

    This would be good to offer because it would not require use of the varying4 attribute

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