RE: Recursive calls in RPG ILE

["Christen, Duane J." <dchristen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The limit to the depth of recursion is limited to the maximum number of call
stack entries, available resources (memory) in the PAG(or some such animal).
I think the call stack entry counter would be the outside limit and I
beleave that is an int giving you something like 2 to 4 billion entries. You
would most likely run out of other resources before reaching that limit.

Duane Christen




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Subject: Re: Recursive calls in RPG ILE


Tommy,

Be aware, that recursive calls is restricted to a certain depth of nesting;
I think it is 32 levels deep.

Anyway, it is not unlimited.

Regards,
Carel Teijgeler

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On 22-3-06 at 10:45 Holden Tommy wrote:

>do you know of any issues with recursive call processing in sub procs??
>
>basically I want to mimic the C functionality where a function can call
>itself & return values etc...
>
>I know historically recursive calls on the 400 has not been a good thing...