Re: Moving data into dynamic storage

Ick.  While it's certainly possible, and many API's use them, I greatly
prefer the idea of just allocating some space with ALLOC and going to
town.  I think it's much less cumbersome than creating a special
object.  The user space idea doesn't seem to scale well in my mind as  I
can easily have 100 or 1000 pointers in my program.  It would be weird (to
me) to have 1000 user spaces in qtemp.

BTW: My solution is to use the C api memcpy to move data into the allocated
storage area.

The only restriction on this method is the same as the restriction on a
user space - 16MB appears to be the allocation limit.

At 12:39 PM 11/23/02, you wrote:

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I wonder whether a 'User Space' may be an answer for dynamic storage.
Anyone have some experience with RPG and User Spaces?

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                    Rich Duzenbury
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Hello,

I've ALLOC'd some variable amount of storage, and now I want to move some
data into it.  I currently use the following idiom to base a character
variable onto a pointer:

D pentry          s               *
D entry           s            100    based(pentry)

Now, I can MOVEL some data into entry (up to 100 bytes), and it goes where
the pointer is pointing to quite nicely.

My problem is that since the amount of storage is variable, I don't want to
have to declare a fixed length for the 'entry' variable.

How can I copy data into the contents of pentry while avoiding a fixed
length restriction?

Regards,
Rich

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