Re: prototype with different type

On 1/24/2018 2:26 PM, tim wrote:

I use the following:

P writeb          b
d writeb          pi
d  desc                         50    const
d  val                         250    const

 /free
   write arec;
 /end-free

P                 e

is it possible to define this so that it take any "type" as a second
parm. Then within the routine, determine what that parm type is and
proceed as needed.

writeb('desc1' : 'this is a string');
writeb('desc2' : 123.24);

OPDESC and the CEEDOD API are the... expected way to do this, but IBM i
doesn't pass all of the possible data types to CEEDOD. Most notably,
numerics are missing.

https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/ssw_ibm_i_73/apis/CEEDOD.htm

For now, I'd say that the workaround is to explicitly pass the data
type, size, etc as separate parameters and handle it yourself.