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  3. October 2007

Re: Is const really that much better than value?

Hello again,

There's no way to tell within the called procedure whether the caller passed the operational descriptor. If %parms is -1 you can be sure they didn't, but if it's any other value, you can't be sure.

Just to clarify your point a bit... you can tell whether a "full descriptor" was passed for a given parameter by calling the CEEDOD API. But there's no way (that I know of) to tell if the minimal descriptor containing the number of parms was passed.


For COBOL, you code BY DESCRIPTOR on the call. I don't think there's a way to do it in the LINKAGE section.


Can't you specify "USING ALL DESCRIBED" on the LINKAGE?

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