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  3. January 2009

Re: Passing unwanted parameters

In RPG IV, if you want the parameter to be optional, put the *NOPASS option on it. All parameters from that point have to be optional.

HTH
Vern

Rory Hewitt wrote:
All,

Probably a silly question, but I haven't managed to find an *absolute*answer:

If I call a program passing too many parameters, what will happen? I'm
assuming the called program won't throw a fit, but will OS/400 take note? I
know some IBM programs throw an error, but I assume (again!) that this is
program-specific code which checks for too many parameters.

If I define a prototype for the called program with the extra parameter
being CONST, could there be any memory overwriting problems? I don't think
so, but I'd like to know.

Although this is the RPG list, if anyone can confirm the behavior for other
languages as well, that would be nice :-)

Thanks,

Rory


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