RE: Q2CLE (was: "X-Spec")

**CAUTION**

The C Runtime routines (atoi, itoa, atof, etc) are expecting null 
terminated strings!  If you pass them an RPG char field, it is not 
null terminated.  The runtime function will keep processing the 
"string" until it hits an 0x00 in your data section...or gets a 
pointer violation.  And if it is a function that is writing to the 
string, (say strcpy() ), it WILL corrupt data.  And this is the very 
worst possible bug to introduce into your program.

Bob

-----Original Message-----
From:   Kevin Watkins [SMTP:kevinw@hurtcompanies.com]
Sent:   Thursday, May 13, 1999 9:08 AM
To:     MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject:        Re: Q2CLE (was: "X-Spec")

whoa! stop! put on the brakes!

Someone 'splain this to me! I am all ears!

|| > >%AtoI (Alfa to integer)
|| > >%AtoF (Alfa to float)
|| > Just add QC2LE as a binding directory, and prototype calls to the
|| > C-functions atoi() and atof() using a /COPY member for the 
prototypes.
||
|| I know and I do - many of the current bifs are available as 
C-library
|| functions - still I find the bifs easier to use and better 
documented.



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