PI67875: ADDING SPACE TO FLOWCHART CONDITION CAUSES UNREQUIRED GOTO STATEMENTS IN PROVIDED EXAMPLES

IBM Rational Rhapsody 8.2

APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• Using the provided examples project CSamples/Flowcharts, if the
  user adds a space before one of the "[Else]" conditions, then
  numerous goto statements are generated. This is entirely
  unnecessary considering that the examples are supposed to be the
  officially supported layout for flowcharts:
  
  STEPS
  1) Open the CSamples/flowcharts project
  2) Browse to the "IfThenElse" flowchart: Open the flowchart and
  the generated code cpp file
  3) Note the code does not use goto statements
  4) Locate an "Else" transition in the flowchart and open its
  features window
  5) Add a whitespace before the "[Else]" condition
  6) Save, regen the code and not that several goto statements
  have been added to the code.
  

Local fix

Problem summary

• ****************************************************************
  * USERS AFFECTED:                                              *
  * Rhapsody users                                               *
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  * PROBLEM DESCRIPTION:                                         *
  * Code generation of flowchart is different if there are       *
  * whitespaces in the "else" guard.                             *
  ****************************************************************
  * RECOMMENDATION:                                              *
  ****************************************************************
  

Problem conclusion

• Fixed in Rhapsody 8.2 -
  Code generation of flowchart ignores whitespaces in the "else"
  guard. [lang]_CG:Operation:UsePre82Flowchart is overridden on
  the backward compatibility settings to preserve to previous
  behavior.
  

Temporary fix

Comments

APAR Information

• APAR is sysrouted FROM one or more of the following:

• APAR is sysrouted TO one or more of the following:

Fix information

• Fixed component name

  TLOGIC RHAPSODY

• Fixed component ID

  5724V74RP

Applicable component levels

• R814 PSN

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