On Wed, 13 Mar 2024 11:01:30 -0500, Charles Mills <charl...@mcn.org> wrote: >And the answer is ... "The three numeric settings are automatically saved >across internal and external subroutine and function calls." >I was setting numeric digits in an initialization subroutine, so Rexx >helpfully unset it on return from initialization. I thought I had done it that >way before but I guess I have not.
Funny, I work with a lot of code that has a common subroutine for retrieving a TRACE setting to set in the main routine, and I never even thought about why, or about all the stuff that gets saved across calls! From CALL HELPREXX on VM: >The status of DO loops and other structures: --though, importantly, not the *indices* of the loops! >Trace action: >NUMERIC settings: >ADDRESS settings: >Condition traps: (CALL ON and SIGNAL ON) >Condition information: >Elapsed-time clocks: >OPTIONS settings: ¬R ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
