{Spam?} Re: Operational Descriptors

Bob,

I prefer just passing %Size( Field ) because:
A) It's not supported for all data types
B) It's not worth all the extra code required to extract that one value
C) It seems to be a little flaky

Putting those aside, doesn't szEntry require OPDESC on that line (not just on the PI line)? Since it seems to work when called from a procedure, maybe not, but that's my gut reaction.

-mark

At 1/11/03 01:16 AM, you wrote:

I'm using the OPDESC keyword on a procedure.
The 3rd parameter of that procedure is defined as follows (well
actually, here's the entire proc interface):

     D GetNextEntry    PI            10I 0 OPDESC
     D  szUserSpace                  20A   Const
     D  nRefPos                      10I 0
     D  szEntry                    4096A   OPTIONS(*VARSIZE)

Upon entering the procedure, I call CEEDOD, or CEEGSI.
I do that to extract the length of parameter 3.

Upon calling either of these APIs, I get a "CEE0502 Missing operational
descriptor" message.

Now here's the strange part:
If I call this procedure from within another procedure, I don't get the
error and the APIs work fine. But if I call the exact same procedure
from the mainline calcs in a program, I get the above mentioned error.