Re: Max CL program size for debug?

The limit on the size of a *CHAR variable has always been 5000
bytes, as far back as I can remember, at least V2R3... it is just that
debug won't display all of it...

Of course, I personally think 5000 is another "dumb" arbitrary
restriction... I should be able to declare a single character variable
of at least 32,767 bytes, maybe even 16 meg., if I want to... :-)

Mark

----- Original Message -----
From: "Buck Calabro" <Buck.Calabro@commsoft.net>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Friday, August 16, 2002 11:44 AM
Subject: RE: Max CL program size for debug?


> >> The annoying thing is that the maximum field
> >> length that can be displayed
> >> in DSPPGMVAR is 2000 bytes.
> >
> >not only is this a limit for DSPPGMVAR, it is a
> >limit of a field in the program, debugging or not
>
> This V5R1 source compiles and runs back to V4R4:
> PGM
>
> DCL &large      *CHAR 4096
>
> ChgVar &large ' '
> ChgVar %sst(&large 2001 4) '2001'
>
> if (&large *ne ' ') do
>   sndpgmmsg  'Have data' topgmq(*ext)
> enddo
>
> ENDPGM
>
> It debugs in all three green screen debuggers:
> STRDBG OPMSRC(*NO) addbkp 800, dsppgmvar '&large' start(2001)
> STRDBG OPMSRC(*YES) eval %substr(&large 2001 512)
> STRISDB d (2001)&large
>   --buck
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