Re: pointer to fields in file, mapped to array

[Stuart Rowe <rowestu@xxxxxxxxx>]

I believe the three buckets per month are in a non-normalized record with
all months in one record.  That's 36.

Anyway your D-spec says based(prQty) but your setting ptQty.  Undeclared
basing pointers are implicitly defined by the compiler -- no compile-time
error, just run time oddities result.

Stu


On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 17:28, Alan Campin <alan0307d@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> How could it. You said you only had 3 fields per record, not 36. You are
> just looking at other memory past the 3 fields in your records.
>
> On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Gqcy <gmufasa01@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > We have the following:
> > a file contains 54 buckets (packed 9,0) (one for each accounting week of
> > year)
> > to easily get these into an array I make:
> >
> > an array:   QtyArr  s   like(TAW01) Dim(54)  Based(ptQty)
> > a pointer:  ptQty   s  *
> >
> > I read a record,
> > then I set the pointer to the first field in the record:
> >
> >  ptQty =  %addr(TAW01)  ;
> >
> > I can work with QtyArr(x) fine...
> >
> >
> > however I tried to copy this logic to another program (different file),
> > instead of weekly buckets (packed 7,2) , I have 3 buckets per month...
> > and the array winds up with garbage...
> >
> > array:  QtyArr  s    like(VRJAN) dim(36) Based(prQty)
> > pointer: ptQty  s   *
> >
> > read a record
> > then:
> >   ptQty =  %addr(VRJAN)  ;
> >
> > My array has garbage, which when I dump, in the later elements has the
> > names of different procedures in our binding directory, so either the
> > pointer is not correct, or the input record isn't all there???
> >
> > Any Ideas to help debug this?
> >
> > -gerald
> >
> >
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