Re: Data structures in free prototypes? -- RPG400-L

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Subject: Re: Data structures in free prototypes?
From: Barbara Morris <bmorris@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2016 08:48:04 -0400
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On 6/24/2016 10:42 AM, dlclark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Although I did vote for that RFE when it was first created, it is
not really a good idea for external procedures because this would create
duplicate structure definitions (in PR and PI) that would have to be
maintained twice.

The caller would also have to define the data structure. The names of prototypes are basically treated as comments by the compiler, so it wouldn't be possible for the caller to define their data structure using LIKEDS(prototype_parm_name).

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