RE: How can I Improve this procedure...

Hi Adam,
 
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I think that for return values to work as they should, then *need* to be
created in automatic storage (thanks Eric for the terminology ... I'm not
sure if System i people use the PC term "on the heap").
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We System i guys do use the term "on the heap" but I believe automatic
variables are allocated on the stack, not the heap. Automatic variables
include all non-static variables declared within a subprocedure and all
return variables*. Heap variables are simply based on pointers which have
memory manually allocated via functions such as %alloc or malloc.
 
* I am assuming that return variables are created on the stack because they
do not seem suitable candidates for either static or heap storage, but seem
ideally suited for stack storage.
 
Cheers
 
Larry Ducie