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  3. April 2002

Re: Space pointers

> in general, there is no size as such associated with a basing pointer.
> You can (say in MI) declare anything you like based on the same pointer:
> DCL DD  HUGE-CHUCK  CHAR(100000) BAS(.PTR)  or
> DCL DD  TINY-PIECE  CHAR(1) BAS(.PTR)

RPG seems to "know" this value when doing a REALLOC, or DEALLOC, so was
hoping that the data might be
available at the MI level.


> Since you are working with heaps, the MATHSAT (Materialize Heap
> Space Attribute) instruction is possibly a solution. The MI manual
> is online at: http://www.as400.ibm.com/tstudio/tech_ref/mi/

This looks like it might work. There is an allocation template that provides
the information I need.

Thanks,

John Taylor

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