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"Bartell, Aaron L. (TC)" wrote: > > To go along with Scott and Joe's comments I am fairly certain you cannot > use a VARYING field as a parm to a C API. This is because the first two > chars of the variable contain it's length and since C doesn't support > RPG's version of VARYING length fields it thinks those first two bytes > are part of the file path/name. > > I may be wrong, but I struggled with this some time ago and I think that > is what I came up with. > Aaron, the rule about not using VARYING when calling a C API applies to the prototype of the C function, which describes what the C function is expecting. (It's only a rule of thumb. A C program can support RPG's varying length if you want, but you would have to define your own C struct to map to the type.)
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