RE: Passing pointers as parms

I'm pretty sure all you need to do to use a pointer is declare a data
structure based on the pointer in your called routine.  Haven't tried it,
but I think it should work.  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: jfinney@omnia.co.za [mailto:jfinney@omnia.co.za]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2000 6:12 AM
> To: rpg400-l@midrange.com
> Subject: Passing pointers as parms
> 
> 
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I've a program which moves a buffer, (anywhere up to 32767), 
> into a data
> structure. The data appears correct in the subfields.
> 
> What I want to do is to call another program and instead of 
> passing the
> data/data structure, rather pass a pointer to the data and 
> move the data into a
> data structure in the called program. Any suggestions, (yes, 
> I'm busy reading
> the manual) ?
> 
> Regards
> John.
> 
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