Are there any RDS compatability problems?
Dennis J. Pimple (dennisp@informix.com) informs: Differences are minor. RDS initializes variables (to NULL for CHARs, 0 for numeric, and 12/31/1899 for DATEs), while in c compiled (and as good coding practice) variable initialization is done by the programmer. There are some bugs in RDS not manifested in c- ompiled and vice versa, but nothing too severe (the most frustrating one I can think of off the top of my head is that WORDWRAP in a report doesn’t work as well in RDS as it does in compiled, meaning that you might pound at a problem in RDS that isn’t any kind of problem in compiled). To err on the side of caution, I’d suggest a final test in c-compiled before rolling code into production, but I wouldn’t spend a major amount of time on it.
