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Re: Help with QSYCUSRA API - Check User Authority

Wilt, Charles wrote:
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Actually char(*) is indeed a pointer.
It's a pointer to character data, but it is indeed a pointer.

This prototype would work just as well:

D ChkUsrAut PR ExtPgm('QSYCUSRA')
> ...
d errorcode * value

...
> Again, passing _any_ varible by reference is the same as passing a pointer by value. ...

Charles, you can't pass a parameter by value to a program.

But aside from that, "CHAR(*)" isn't a pointer any more than "BIN(4)" is a pointer. Sometimes CHAR(*) is used to describe a subfield, and if you code a pointer subfield, it's completely wrong.


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