Re: Variable Length Field Question

[Alan <steelville@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Peter,

This quirk once actually caused me a couple of days trying to run down 
the problem with my code, debug debug debug, till it finally I just 
tried reversing the order of a couple of assignment lines. Bingo, worked 
great!

- Alan


Peter Connell wrote:

> Brad,
> A warning on large variable length return values.
>
> Previous responses I've had on this list by the IBM guys indicate that
> it appears the compiler has not been designed to accommodate these as
> well as might be hoped. If you have many (like 100+) such statements in
> a program, it is possible that it can eventually cause an automatic
> storage overflow error, possibly triggered when some other normal but
> unrelated exception has occurred. I speak from experience. When this
> happens in a production job, like an http server, it can be devastating,
> since the job is left in some sort of unstable state that can affect
> subsequent requests. It does not affect fixed length return values or
> varying length parameters.
>
> Peter
>