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[Jon.Paris@xxxxxxxxxx]

 >> it sounds like the potential exists for an ILE program to call a procedure
in a service program with the wrong parameters and get clobbered. True?

Absolutely and that is why prototypes are so critical.  The binding signature
only ensures that what is sometimes referred to as the "slot sequence"  i.e. the
names and sequence of exports, has not changed.  It has _zero_ to do with number
and type of parameters.  There is nothing in the ILE architecture to help out
there.  Even if you implement operational descriptors yourself (which
theoretically could be used to do this) the implementation is incomplete and
therefore almost useless.  I'm a big fan of ILE, but there are areas that could
have been (and still could be) vastly improved.

If Bruce Vining is tuned in maybe he can comment on whether we'll ever get full
descriptor support.


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