RE: Reason for allocating memory

["Justin Houchin" <justin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

So if I understood you correctly, allocating memory is related to the
"C" programming language?

-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-admin@midrange.com [mailto:rpg400-l-admin@midrange.com]
On Behalf Of Jon Paris
Sent: Friday, July 26, 2002 10:50 AM
To: rpg400-l@midrange.com
Subject: Reason for allocating memory

 >> Could someone tell me the reason they would dynamically allocate
memory.

Because while at least trying to produce a working example in RPG, the
people who wrote it were completely clueless about the language and
effectively translated C logic into RPG wherever they found a matching
function.

I hate to say this because they are on of the few groups in the whole of
IBM
that realize that we don't all program in C but ....

There is no reason why a regular RPG variable 256 long could not be used
instead of the method they used.  Same applies to a whole bunch of other
allocations and similar silliness.

Jon Paris
Partner400


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