Re: Converting *ENTRY & PLIST to free format

Hi Booth -

On Thu, 20 Jun 2013 14:45:39 -0500, Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Oh gosh. I checked that with the DSPLY line of code and got the results
I expected. I did get "DSPLY No Parm" when I called the program with no
parm passed.

I don't doubt your comment; after all, why would IBM create *NOPASS if
it is ignored? In other words, more confusion for me at the elementary
level.

If you are CALLing the program, the prototype is irrelevant.

If you are CALLPing the program from some other RPGLE program, and the
parameter does not have OPTIONS(*NOPASS) on the prototype being used
in the calling program and you CALLP with no parameter, the compiler
will issue an error.

I had a further question, but it is probably not related to a
*ENTRY/PLIST conversion. Is the EXTPGM() keyword of use for converting
*ENTRY/PLIST?

Having EXTPGM (with the correct program name) allows you to put the
prototype in a /copy member which can be used both by the called
program as part of replacing *ENTRY, and also by calling RPGLE program
to ensure that they are in agreement on the parameters.

With a shared /copy member, both the called program and the calling
program(s) will have OPTIONS(*NOPASS) or will not have
OPTIONS(*NOPASS).

Ken
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