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Joe

The current 32K limit might be cuz they are treating the number as signed.

Vern

At 10:25 AM 5/12/2007, you wrote:

> From: Barbara Morris
>
> Thanks for your thoughts on this, Scott. We have thought about
> VARYING4, but we would want to allow the explicit VARYING2 as well, and
> we think that it's more clear that VARYING and VARYING(2) are equivalent
> than that VARYING and VARYING2 are equivalent. The concept of a default
> parameter is common in RPG, but VARYING2 looks like it means something
> different from VARYING.
>
> Ultimately, people have to know what the syntax means anyway, but I
> agree that it's ideal if someone reading the code can guess right about
> what it means.

Okay, how about something straightforward:

VARYING(*MAX32KB)
VARYING(*MAX2GB)
VARYING(*MAX128TB)

The numbers are based on 2, 4 and 6 byte prefixes, but with one bit unused
(not sure why one bit is unused, except that 32KB is the current maximum, so
I kept the pattern going).

Let VARYING default to VARYING(*MAX32KB) and all is well.

I stopped at 48-bit addressing (technically 47-bit) because it's just hard
for me to conceive of a situation where one would need more than 128
terabytes for a single field. If you decided to go to 63 bits, I guess you
do *MAX8EB (eight exabytes).

Joe


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