Re: calling procedures from cl programs

["David Morris" <dmorris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jon,

I have tried to return 2 byte integers from RPGIV to CL and it never 
worked.  If the reason a single character field doesn't work is that 
it is expecting a two byte integer, and two byte integers don't work 
because... I can't even speculate.  

I think this incompatibility war started when *LGL values couldn't be 
passed to RPG programs and has gradually escalated.  Microsoft's 
Java development team could learn a few tricks from these guys.  
Kidding aside, I wish the CL developers could be a little more aggressive, 
and work on the interface to ILE procedures.  Even if this means a new 
command, or compile option to maintain compatibility.

David Morris

>>> <Jon.Paris@halinfo.it> 03/14/99 05:34PM >>>


I can't find the reference right now, but I'm fairly certain this happens
because RPG passes (and expects) a single char field to be just that.  CL on the
other hand follows the pattern of C and expects a char field to be passed as a
two byte int.  Not sure of the best way to specify this in CL, but you could get
round the problem probably by having the RPG return a 2 char field.


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