RE: parameter passing pitfall

[Joel Fritz <JFritz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You're right, of course.  I was looking at it in debug after the first call.
You never get a guarantee on the contents of memory you didn't initialize or
assign a value.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Buck Calabro [mailto:Buck.Calabro@commsoft.net]
> Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 11:01 AM
> To: rpg400-l@midrange.com
> Subject: RE: parameter passing pitfall
>
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>
> "twentychar" is not _guaranteed_ to hold anything except '12'
> in the first
> two columns.  The remaining 18 are undefined, and are
> whatever happens to
> fall after fld2 in memory.  To see why this is so, envision
> how the call is
> processed.
>
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