RE: Weird Happening

In other words,

Your prototype should be in a copy member that is /COPY'ed into both the
calling program and the called program.

Of course you need to actually use the /COPY'ed prototype to make the
call.

But that way the compiler can make sure that the prototype and the PI
agree and thus all programs using the prototype will make the call
correctly.

If your prototype's not in a /COPY member, then you're missing one of
the biggest benefits to replacing *ENTRY PLIST with a prototype and
procedure interface.


Charles Wilt
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iSeries Systems Administrator / Developer
Mitsubishi Electric Automotive America
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-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Joe Pluta
Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 3:50 PM
To: 'RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries'
Subject: RE: Weird Happening

In the calling program the parms for PreferredCity and InterlineCode are
the same, or are at least in the same memory location (the latter could
happen through basing pointers or overlaid fields in a data structure).
Check the call to the procedure.

Joe

> From: Bruce Collins
> 
> Below I have exchanged my *entry to this. When I move a value into
> 'ALBERT'
> into PreferredCIty  the field InterlineCode is populated with 'Albe'
even
> thought I have not moved any thing into it. When some does get moved
into
> it
> it overlays the first 4 bytes of PreferredCIty with it value. i.e.
> InterlineCode = 'BEAV'. PreferredCiity now show 'BEAVRT' .