Re: Static binding (was explicit close)

[Buck Calabro <buck.calabro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jim Langston wrote:

-snip about dynamic libraries-

>In this language you did not have to 
>recompile each program when you 
>recompiled the library (directory
>in AS/400 terms).  That made it 
>a bit easier.  I only had to recompile 
>my programs when I changed my
>public variables or standard call headers.

This is OPM behaviour, sometimes called dynamic binding.  You use it in RPG
via the CALL opcode and parm/plist.  The called program uses *entry
parm/plist to receive and return variable data.  If you re-compile the
called program, the caller will use the new version on the next invocation.
You must keep the parameter lists "in synch." though.

Buck Calabro
Aptis; Albany, NY
"We are what we repeatedly do.
 Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." --Aristotle


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