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On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, Dan wrote:
The RPG ref on an *ENTRY PARM says "Fields or data structures defined with the keywords BASED, IMPORT, or EXPORT" are not allowed.
Passing a BASED parameter wouldn't make any sense. Parameters are passed by reference (i.e. by passing the pointer to that parameter). If you allowed it to be BASED and defined a pointer that it was based on, then it'd have two different pointers that it's based on, which doesn't make any sense.
Instead, you need to pass the pointer (rather than the array itself) to the subprocedure. The subproc can then allocate memory to it. The pointer does have to be passed by reference, since %ALLOC() will need to set the address in that pointer.
I strongly recommend that you avoid the dynamic memory allocation approach to this if you can possibly avoid it. It's not worth it for a measley 40k of data.
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