RE: problem passing a MODS

... but how could the called program do that? It has no indication that the
caller is sending an element of a MODS.

Dennis Lovelady
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In the case I presented, the called program that loads the mods does
not reset the occurrence to 1. This is a converted RPGIII.

I cannot remember why one cannot just pass a mods as a parameter
between rpgIV programs as one could with RPGIII. To encapsulate the
original RPGIII, this was used as a parameter between the rpgIV
receiving the mods and the rpgIII sending the mods :

D MYSP B
d parmMods like(ref_mods)
D Error

Notice it is not a DS at all, it is a character field with the same
length as the mods.

I am just guessing but this is what is happening to my program :

First call to mysp : parmmods points to mymods(1) in the caller so all
ends ok.
second call parmmods points to mymods(last_used_occurence) - rpgIII
modifies 20 occurrences starting from that position and overflows into
position occupied by the parameter Error.

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[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] De la part de Rory Hewitt
Envoyé : mercredi 23 février 2011 01:52 À : RPG programming on the
IBM i / System i Objet : Re: problem passing a MODS

RPGIII...

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Jon Paris
<jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Feb 22, 2011, at 7:05 PM, rpg400-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

A quick question that occurred to me:

If I define a MODS in one program, set the occurrence to

1 and pass

it to

a

second program and that called program then loads the MODS with
data,

does

the called program need to reset the occurrence to 1 before
returning to

the

calling program?

Interesting question. Honest answer is I don't know for certain.
Although it is a pointer to the storage of the original variable I
would think that it is a copy of the original pointer is

being passed.

Haven't got time to play or I'd test it. But why not avoid

the whole

mess and use a DS array instead of a MODS anyway?


Jon P.
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