Re: Antwort: Re: RPGIV - Pointer Parameter API QwpzHostPrintTransform

["M. Lazarus" <mlazarus@xxxxxxxx>]

At 3/16/01 09:56 AM -0600, you wrote:
>On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Patrick Conner wrote:
>
> > Can I define the based on pointer character field as 1A? And
> > why is 16M the limit?
>
>Sure...  you can define it as 1A, then move the pointer forward to
>access more memory.   Depending on what you're doing, this may not
>perform very well, but it should work.


  You actually don't have to assign the pointer to a variable until you 
want to use the data.  So you could, for example, set the pointer to an 
input record buffer, read the record, then set the pointer of a DS to be a 
"shifting window" into the data.

  -mark

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