RE: Procedure parameter with VALUE option

Okay, this looks to me like the things C does.
You are telling your procedure to expect 32k of
data as a constant length string.  In C this would
be an array of char 32k long.

Then you pass in an 128 string.  Again, esentially
an array of 128 chars.

When the procedure gets this, I believe it is just
getting a pointer to your parameter.  It knows that
this pointer is pointing to a characters string
32k long.  And that's how it treats it.  So, that
extra junk you are seeing is whatever happens to be
in memory past your actual string.

This would be okay, if you were also passing the
actual length of the data, so that you could only
act on the data up to your actual string length.

I think you are going to have to use varying or
the such.

Reguardless of what the manual says, that's what the
sample you've given and the var dumps show me.  I'm
sure Hans might have more insight or correction.

HTH,

Jim Langston

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Dow
To: rpg400-l@midrange.com
Sent: 12/13/2001 10:22 AM
Subject: Re: Procedure parameter with VALUE option

Hi Hans,

Thanks for looking at this.  Yes, I checked the values with the
debugger,
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This was CnvRec in the RPGLE program just before doing the CALLP:

EVAL cnvrec:x
   00000     C7D340C3 D6D5E5C5 D9E2C9D6 D540D3D7   - GL CONVERSION LP
   00010     C840C7D3 40839695 A58599A2 89969540   - H GL conversion
   00020     8481A381 40869699 40F1F061 F3F161F0   - data for 10/31/0
   00030     F14081A2 40968640 F1F261F1 F261F0F1   - 1 as of 12/12/01
   00040     25404040 40404040 40404040 40404040   - .
   00050     40404040 40404040 40404040 40404040   -
   00060     40404040 40404040 40404040 40404040   -
   00070     40404040 40404040 40404040 40404040   -

Upon entry to IFS_prt before anything was executed:
EVAL text:x
   00000     C7D340C3 D6D5E5C5 D9E2C9D6 D540D3D7   - GL CONVERSION LP
   00010     C840C7D3 40839695 A58599A2 89969540   - H GL conversion
   00020     8481A381 40869699 40F1F061 F3F161F0   - data for 10/31/0
   00030     F14081A2 40968640 F1F261F1 F261F0F1   - 1 as of 12/12/01
   00040     25404040 40404040 40404040 40404040   - .
   00050     40404040 40404040 40404040 40404040   -
...duplicate lines omitted
   003F0     40404040 40404040 40404040 40404040   -
   00400     00000000 00000490 00000000 00000000   - .......°........
   00410     00000000 00000490 40404040 40404040   - .......°
   00420     00000000 00000490 40404040 40404040   - .......°
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