Re: Calling an ILE C Routine from ILE RPG (V7R2)

Did you download the source a long time back Patrick? Because the feature that uses that parm was added some long time ago. You might want to consider updating your source to the later version.

Just to clarify - any C code written to be multi-platform will always need a X'00' termination for strings unless: 1) The length is also passed as a separate parm or 2) This is a rare case where the C code uses a fixed length field. If those circumstances do not apply then there is no way for it to know the length without some termination.

Glad the termination sorted your problem for you.

On May 22, 2020, at 2:03 PM, Patrik Schindler <poc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello Nathan,

Am 22.05.2020 um 14:49 schrieb Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx>:

One more thing I noticed in the C source code for pw_rand() is a 4th parameter, a pointer to a character buffer named "remove".

Interesting. My source doesn't have that fourth parameter you're talking about.

Regarding other commentors: Also, I had the impression that it should (!) suffice to just give the function the base address of the string buffer. Wasn't expecting the missing 0x0 to be such a big deal. Now I know better. :-)

But, problem solved. Thank you all for everybody's hints! Greatly appreciated!

:wq! PoC

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