Re: Basing a field on an unreferenced field(s) doesn't work

I am not sure I understand what you mean. Anyway, you must have seen by now the 
post by Barbara M. which explain the issu much better that I could have done.

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>>> rob@dekko.com 01/11/02 01:31pm >>>

But, in this case, if I avoid the data structure, and it's defining the
fields with the wrong length, I won't have that problem?

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You are right, I am a little bit pointer phobic.

The overlaqpping DS example that you give does suffer the same problem but
when you look at the code, the error is more obvious (i my opinion).

And now for the example of non consecutive storage assignement:

Let say that in you file, you have the following field defined
consecutively:
fld1 fld2 fld3

But, in the RPG, you define the following DS:
     ds
           otherfld    (otherfld is bigger than fld1)
           fdl1  overlay(otherfld)

There is now a gap between fld1 and fld2

There are other situation that can cause this but this is fairly typical.


Denis Robitaille
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>>> rob@dekko.com 01/11/02 11:36am >>>

I think you are being pointer phobic.  I feel for you - I used to be too.
But I've seen the light.

Let's say that a Luddite wanted to avoid pointers.  But they overlayed a 4
element array over a data structure that was only 3 elements big - as in
your example.  Wouldn't they still be suffering a problem?  So this problem
is not really pointer specific.

I've heard this before "You are also assuming that consecutive fields in a
file are stored in consecutive memory location which is not always the
case."  But I've seen no examples.


Rob Berendt
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