API receiver variable limit

[Buck Calabro <buck.calabro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello!

I'm writing a boilerplate for QDBRTVFD (Retrieve file description API).  The
maximum RPG IV string size is 32kb.  The FILD0200 request for a particular
file is returning 49kb of data.  I've used a multiple occurrence data
structure and a based pointer to move an internal data structure around
(which works), but can I rely on the compiler always storing the occurrences
one after the other (to form one block of contiguous API populated memory?)
Is there a better way? (I hope so!)  Should I use C? (sigh)

D indField        s          32767    based(indField@) 
D indField@       s               *                    
D QDBRV           ds         32767    occurs(2) 
C                   call      'QDBRTVFD'          
C                   parm                    QDBRV 
...
C                   eval      indField@ = %addr(QDBRV) + fieldOffset 

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


Billing Concepts Corp., a NASDAQ Listed Company, Symbol: BILL
+---
| This is the RPG/400 Mailing List!
| To submit a new message, send your mail to RPG400-L@midrange.com.
| To subscribe to this list send email to RPG400-L-SUB@midrange.com.
| To unsubscribe from this list send email to RPG400-L-UNSUB@midrange.com.
| Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com
+---