Re: PI to replaced *Entry PLIST (was Because it's there... )

[bmorris@xxxxxxxxxx]

>Date: Sat, 12 May 01 19:20:29 +1000
>From: "Simon Coulter" <shc@flybynight.com.au>

I wrote:
>>(You can't use *OMIT with program calls anyway ...)

and then you wrote
>'Course you can! if the call is prototyped. ...

Oops, right you are.  *OMIT isn't allowed for the PARM opcode and
I assumed the same applied to prototyped calls to programs.

>I doubt that QMHSNDPM is checking for a null pointer on the 3rd parameter
>(although you never know -- it is one of the older programs on the system
>suggesting it was written by someone who knew what they were doing ...

It may work, but I doubt it's actually supported to call a program
API with a null pointer.  I imagine you're fairly safe the third parm
of QMHSNDPM, but if you prototype the third parm of QMHSNDPM
as const, you can pass '' when you have no replacement text.  Even
better, define a named constant NO_REPLACEMENT_TEXT in your
qmhsndpm /copy file and code that as the parameter.

Barbara Morris

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