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On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 9:58 AM, Kurt Anderson
<kurt.anderson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

However, if you give it a bogus pointer, no memory will ever be allocated for that variable - hence it's "template" nature.

I think you're a little confused....or perhaps your statements just
came out wrong.

--Any variable that's BASED(), doesn't have memory allocated to it.
--There's no "bogus" pointer. A pointer used for basing can be
explicitly or implicitly defined.

Thus:
//explicitly defined myPointer
d myPointer s *
d myBased s 10a based(myPointer)

And
//implicitly defined myPointer
d myBased s 10a based(myPointer)

Both result in the same thing. Once you assign a value to myPointer,
you can access the 10 charactors of data at that location via the
myBased variable.

In both case the compile listing will show myPointer defined as a pointer.

HTH,
Charles

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