Re: Dynamic call with procedure pointers

[Barbara Morris <bmorris@xxxxxxxxxx>]

"Bartell, Aaron L. (TC)" wrote:
> 
> >From all of the documentation I have read this morning it looks as though I
> need to define the procedure's prototype in the calling program at
> compile-time.  Is there any way around this?  I would instead like to go out
> to a file and get the procedure name during run-time.
> 

Aaron, the prototype is necessary to define the parameters and possible
return value.  You can code a procedure pointer in the EXTPROC keyword,
and set the procedure pointer at runtime.

It sounds like you probably know at compile time the possible names you
might want, so you can set the procedure pointer with %PADDR. If not,
there's a way to get a procedure pointer given a service program and
procedure name - search for QleActBndPgm and QleGetExp.