RE: Basing Pointers

[Tim McCarthy <TimM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I do not wish to beat a dead horse too much, but what does the
> SETSPP MI-instruction do? It assigns an address to a pointer variable.
> If you were talking about assigning an address to (say) a character
> variable, that is - of course - not only impossible, but also
> meaningless.
        [Tim McCarthy]  Review the thread. The original poster had
wanted to be able to re-assign the address of a data structure - in
particular ones copied from QSYSINC. It was pointed out that basing
these structures on a pointer would accomplish the desired result but he
seemed to really want the ability to change a variables' address on the
fly. That, as Jon Paris wrote, cannot be done in any language - you can
change the address stored in a pointer but you can't change the address
of the pointer. Horse dead. 
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