Re: API parameter lengths

["Alexei Pytel" <pytel@xxxxxxxxxx>]

CALL command does not do this.
C PEP (program entry point) procedure does. For every main() in C, compiler
generates a PEP (you may see it if you do DSPMOD on C module). This PEP
procedure among other things will scan for first blank in each parameter
and create null-terminated string for each parameter.
This makes it very difficult to pass non-character parameters to C main().

    Alexei Pytel

"The better is the worst enemy of the good"




                                                                                
                
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Simon wrote:

"The CALL command is looking at the target program and NULL terminates the
string because that is probably what a C program expects."

Well if the CALL command processing program can do that, then how do you
make an MI program determine if a target program is ILE C?

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