RE: RPG/400 pgm strange behaviour

["Richard Jackson" <richardjackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In this case, the parm lengths and definition location in the caller program
is the problem.  In the RPG program static storage allocation, the MSDT$E
field is defined as some length like 33 in the caller program, field $RTC$E
is defined immediately after it with a length of at least 6.

When this routine is called, the caller passes a space pointer to MSDT$E at
some address and the caller also passes a space pointer to field $RTC$E.
For this explanation, assume that the location of MSDT$E is decimal 1001 and
the location of $RTC$E is decimal 1034.

Neither field MSDT$E nor field $RTC$E occupies space in the callee program,
they are used by reference.  Since it is defined as a *ENTRY parameter, the
callee length should match the caller length definition.  When they don't
match, this is the AS/400 version of a memory leak - you can change memory
that doesn't belong to you.  I have spent days trying to find these things.

I am feeling like this is a very weak explanation of the problem.  If you
can't figure it out from this poor explanation, please drop me another note.

Richard Jackson
mailto:richardjackson@richardjackson.net
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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-rpg400-l@midrange.com [mailto:owner-rpg400-l@midrange.com]On
Behalf Of Silvio Santos
Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2000 5:01 AM
To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
Subject: RPG/400 pgm strange behaviour




I have a program (RPG/400) that checks if some record exists and return.

These two filds are *ENTRY parms of the PGM:
MSDT$E - length 256
$RTC$E (*FOUND or *ERROR) - length 8A


The condition used is like this:

*IN,96    IFEQ '0'
          MOVEL'*FOUND'  $RTC$E
          MOVELMSDTOH  MSDT$E
          ELSE
          MOVEL'*ERROR'  $RTC$E
          ENDIF

It works fine, excepts for one thing: if the condition is true, when it
moves
the MSDTOH content to MSDT$E, it erases the $RTC$E field. For the other
hand,
when the first move is done, the '*Found' is placed in the 34th position of
the
field MSDT$E.

Is there any restriction about entry parms lenght ?
How can I resolve this?

Thanks
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