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  • Subject: Re: Multiple occurance data structure
  • From: "Rose Information Management Co." <rose400@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 27 Jun 1997 19:18:07 -0700

Scott:

Have you checked the definition for the INDX field, if it is 1 byte the 
tenth record's index will be *Zero.

Scott Cornell wrote:
> 
> I have kind of an odd problem - an RPG III program
> uses a multiple occurance data structure defined
> for 25 occurances like so:
> 
> IMDEARN DS      25
> I               1       4 NONTAX
> 
> The structure is filled with some number of values
> from a database file, then later traversed in a DO
> loop.  The loop exit criteria is that a field from
> the DS = *blanks, e.g. no value loaded from the
> file, e.g. "End Of File" (yeah it's bad technique - I
> didn't write it, it's legacy code!), like so:
> 
> C                         Z-ADD   1           INDX
> C       INDX            OCUR    MDEARN
> C       NONTAX  DOWNE*BLANKS
>                   <process DS entry>
> C                        ADD  1       INDX
> C       INDX             OCUR    MDEARN
> C                        END
> 
> Problem - program blows up on an "index out of
> range error" for one of our client's whose
> database has 10 values to be loaded into MDEARN,
> e.g. the error occurs when INDX in the above
> snippet reaches 11.  I'm confused... since MDEARN
> is defined w/25 occurances, 11 shouldn't cause an
> index error, right?  Compile listing shows
> MDEARN(25) and yet, sure enough, in the program
> dump after the error, MDEARN says dimension(10)
> and only shows 10 spaces allocated to the
> structure.  What's up with this... did RPG III
> suddenly start allocating memory for data
> structures dynamically?
> 
>-- 
Richard Rosenbluth
Rose Information Management Co.
rose400@pacbell.net
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