Re: external data structure in free rpgle cant be use in DCL-PI ?

On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 2:38 PM Nick <nicola.brion@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Il 11/03/2020 18:03, dlclark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ha
scritto:

When you pass a parameter to a procedure, only its address is
actually passed -- unless the VALUE keyword is used on that parameter
description in the PR/PI.

In which case, the variabkle is copied to a new location and *pointer to
new location* is passed to procedure.

In the end, you always passed a pointer under covert....

That's not right... you're confusing CONST and VALUE...

With CONST, the data _may_ be copied to a new location and the address
passed via the call stack...

With VALUE, the data is passed directly on the call stack.

dcl-s v1 char(100)

dcl-pr proc1;
parm char(100)
end-pr;
dcl-pr proc2;
parm char(50) const
end-pr;
dcl-pr proc3;
parm char(150) const
end-pr;
dcl-pr proc4;
parm char(75) value
end-pr;

//16 byte address is passed stack
proc1(v1);
proc2(v1);

//data is v1 is copied to a new location
// and 16byte address is passed on stack
proc3(v1);

//75 bytes of the data in v1 is passed on stack
proc4(v1);

Charles