Re: Reason for allocating memory

[Barbara Morris <bmorris@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Joe Lee wrote:
>
> I don't believe that will cause a problem since when the program ends
> the 400 will clean up all the memory it was using.

Joe, the system won't clean up memory until the activation group ends.
RPG doesn't deallocate your storage at seton LR time.

Justin, to ensure you deallocate your pointers, use a cancel handler.
There's an example in the ILE RPG Programmer's Guide.  Search for
CEERTX.

But for allocations, it's probably enough to have an exception handler.
If you're on V5R1, put a MONITOR around the alloc-process-dealloc, and
do the DEALLOC in the on-error.  Otherwise, use a *PSSR.

Any non-exception thing that would cause a cancellation would probably
end the activation group.  Unless it's the default activation group, in
which case ... use a cancel handler.