Re: %addr <> *null vs %parms >= ?

Hello,

> Should the following two if blocks get the same result?
> If    %addr(autToPgm) <> *null
>  ... do someting
> endif
>
> if    %parms >= 6
> ... do something
> endif

No, they do two completely different things, they should get different
results.

The first method (%addr) is checking for options(*omit).

The second method (%parms) is checking for options(*nopass)


> I getting the Pointer not set for location referenced error when using
> %addr.  However, It does not happen all the time.  Sometime it work.
> Sometime it doesn't.

When it works it's just because you got lucky.  When you use the %addr()
method with an options(*nopass) parameter, you MUST first check %parms.
If you don't, you'll be checking memory that's allocated to something else
-- and if you're lucky, it may happen to be *NULL.  But if not, it could
be anything.