Re: Pointer Error

[Alan Campin <alan0307d@xxxxxxxxx>]

<<reinforces my belief that we should avoid passing pointers>>

Talk about an understatement. The rough equivalent to putting one bullet in
your gun, sticking it in your mouth and start pulling the trigger.
Eventually you are going to blow your brains out.

On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 9:55 AM, PAPWORTH Paul <Paul.PAPWORTH@xxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Jon Barbara and everybody who replied thank you.
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> I suspect that the error came about after the program was recompiled at
> version 6. The program in question passes pointers to data structures as
> parameters to 2 dynamic program calls. I would have liked to eliminate
> this unnecessary complexity and replaced the pointer by a prototyped
> call using the likeds feature. However this would have had an enormous
> impact on the system , so I opted for a work around. I created 3
> separate little programs to write to each of the files and I created
> these in their own named activation groups thus 'protecting them' from
> the address error in the main program group. This solved the problem and
> reinforces my belief that we should avoid passing pointers when other
> more safe techniques exist.I hope this is not too crude a solution as do
> admit that I do find this area quite difficult to follow and as such am
> a bit worried how I'll get on with Java as we are dropping RPG in favor
> of OO.
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