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  3. March 2011

Re: Pointer usage danger?

On 2011/3/8 12:48 PM, CRPence wrote:
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"If even" is noted, because if like I recall in another [PL based]
language, the element [literal] specification is ignored when assigning
a pointer to an "array". ...

RPG honours the array index when assigning the address, whether it's a literal or variable or other expression.

%addr(arr(10)) returns a pointer to element 10.

If n = 5, %addr(arr(n+1)) returns a pointer to element 6.


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