RE: Something funny happened on the way to the PARMUM

Booth,

When you call a program using constants for parms, they are by default 32
bytes for character (15.5 packed for numeric).  If you pad the fourth parm
with extra 59 spaces, you'll be OK.

jt

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-rpg400-l@midrange.com [mailto:owner-rpg400-l@midrange.com]On
Behalf Of booth@martinvt.com
Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2000 8:49 PM
To: rpg400-l@midrange.com
Subject: Something funny happened on the way to the PARMUM


Some days I feel stupid, other days I look stupid.

Here's the code:

  C    *ENTRY PList
  C           Parm         Parm1    6
  C           Parm         Parm2   27
  C           Parm         Parm3    5
  C           Parm         Parm4   60
  C           Parm         Parm5    5

Then we run debug on the program with  Call Prog  ('ABC' 'DEFGHI' '12345'
'a' 'b')
Parms 1,2,3, & 5 are just fine but parm4 will have the "a" in position 1
and "b" at about position 34.  Several of us have looked at this and
checked everything we can think of.

What say ye?   Simple to solve?
_______________________
Booth Martin
Booth@MartinVT.com
http://www.MartinVT.com
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