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On 10/28/2010 1:08 PM, Dennis Lovelady wrote:
pDS = %Alloc(%Size(myDS) * NBR_OF_ENTRIES)
For I = 1 to NBR_OF_ENTRIES
Clear myDS
pDS += %Size(myDS)
endfor

This code is dangerous, because the final time through the loop, pDS will be beyond the end of the allocation.

That's dangerous, because under some circumstances, OS/400 will send an *ESCAPE message to your program when you set a pointer beyond the end of a space.

A better solution:

start = %Alloc(%Size(myDS) * NBR_OF_ENTRIES)
For I = 1 to NBR_OF_ENTRIES
pDS = start + (I-1) * %size(myDS);
Clear myDS
endfor


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