Reason for allocating memory

 >> Could someone tell me the reason they would dynamically allocate memory.

Because while at least trying to produce a working example in RPG, the
people who wrote it were completely clueless about the language and
effectively translated C logic into RPG wherever they found a matching
function.

I hate to say this because they are on of the few groups in the whole of IBM
that realize that we don't all program in C but ....

There is no reason why a regular RPG variable 256 long could not be used
instead of the method they used.  Same applies to a whole bunch of other
allocations and similar silliness.

Jon Paris
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