RE: "guessing" the parameter type. -- RPG400-L

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Subject: RE: "guessing" the parameter type.
From: Carlos Kozuszko <ckozuszko@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:17:33 -0300 (ART)
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Jon Paris wrote: 
> I'm afraid that you'll never be able to do that.  
> The pointer carries zero 
> information about the type of data it points to -
> nor could it.  

Im really aware that i can't get that info from the
pointer itself 
(a pointer is just a pointer anyway), but i was
wondering if using 
the address of the data could I get the data type
somehow.

Carlos Kozuszko

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