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  3. May 2007

Re: Max length of a VARYING field

Barbara Morris wrote:

When RPG lifts the 64K restriction for strings, it will have to use a
4-byte prefix for varying fields longer than 64K. When that happens,
you will want to find all the places where you have done this
calculation, in case you increase the size of your fields to the point
where they need the bigger prefix.


I'm all for the increased size, but...

I hope there will be an option to retain the 2-byte prefix for backward
compatibility. If not, this could become an infamous gotcha where if
someone compiles 1 module/program they end up having to fix a whole
series of programs.


Keith



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