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Pseudo Comments for the Extended Program Check

Obsolete Syntax
... "#EC ...

Effect
The string ABAP_KEY "#EC after a statement or a part of a statement that follows a particular ID defines the subsequent content of the line as a pseudo comment for the extended program check .
The possible IDs are document in the extended program check or in its results. The pseudo comments can be used to hide certain warnings from the extended program check for a particular statement.

Notes

When pragmas were introduced, appropriate pragmas (

##... ) were implemented for all "#EC... pseudo comments; these pragmas should be used instead of the pseudo comments. This makes the pseduo comments obsolete for the extended program check. The program
ABAP_SLIN_PRAGMAS shows which pragmas are to be used instead of the obsolete pseudo comments.

Do not use the pseudo comment #EC * in programs that use pragmas to deactivate warnings. This causes an extended program check warning that cannot be deactivated. The same applies to the statement SET EXTENDED CHECK .

To hide multiple warnings from a statement with pseudo comments, the statement must be spread across multiple lines.

If the ID specified after "#EC has the prefix "CI_", it is a pseudo comment for the Code Inspector

. These pseudo comments have not yet been replaced by pragmas.

Example
The pseudo comment "#EC NEEDED suppresses the message of the extended program check that tells the user that there is no read access to a .
DATA: a TYPE string, "#EC NEEDED
b TYPE string.
a = b.
The following source code section shows how the pseudo comment can be replaced by a pragma .
DATA: a TYPE string ##needed,
b TYPE string.
a = b.