RE: IFS Prototypes

Barbara,
I use this technique and don't seem to have an issue. What should the
prototype be? Would it make a copy of the address of the parameter value,
which would be the original variable's address anyway?


Bob Cozzi
Cozzi Consulting
www.rpgiv.com


-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Barbara Morris
Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 12:32 PM
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Subject: Re: IFS Prototypes

Bob cozzi wrote:
> 
> Here are the rest of my IFS prototypes, sorry that I couldn't locate them
> earlier.
> ...
>      D fgets           PR              *   ExtProc('_C_IFS_fgets')
>      D  inBuffer                       *   Value Options(*STRING)
> ...

Bob, why Options(*STRING) on inBuffer?  That option allows you to pass a
character expression, but when you do, the character expression always
gets copied to a temporary with a null following it.

If someone did pass a character field thinking it would get set by
fgets, all that would actually be set would be the compiler's internal