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Re: Getting into pointers

On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 9:28 AM, Stuart Rowe<rowestu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
You could also have not based the DS on the pointer, but rather set the
pointer to the address of the DS.  This way you can use your DS without
allocating memory for it, and just tell the called routine "where" the DS is
in your program.

   myPtr = %addr( myDS );


This wouldn't work. myPtr is already implicitly assigned the address
of myDS via the use of the BASED keyword.

I think what you were trying to say was, that David didn't need to use BASED.

D PGM2 PR EXTPGM ( 'PGM2' )
D OutParm *


D MyDS DS LIKEDS ( gMyOtherDS ) DIM ( 100 )

/free

PGM2 (%addr(myDS) );

/end-free


Charles

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