>>Creates and releases compile-time constants.
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>>You can use the #DEFINE and #UNDEF preprocessor directives to create compile-time constants in programs. By creating constants with #DEFINE instead of using variables, you can reduce memory consumption, increase performance, and simplify programs.
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>Very good, Alexandre.
>But it is possible that "reduce memory consumption" means 'reduce the impact on MVCOUNT'.
>It could also be that "increase performance" refers to something totally different than the 'constant' being included in-line *IN* the instruction.
I've done a simple test. I've found a piece of ancient say/get code where a picture string '999.999' was mentioned six times. I compiled it, and found the string in the fxp six times.
Then I #defined it as a constant and replaced all six occurrences of the string with this constant. I compiled it, and found the string in the fxp six times, in pretty much the same places as in the first fxp.
So there's no pool - the constants still remain scattered throughout the code.
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