Re: ILE question

[Marco Facchinetti <facchinetti@xxxxxxxxx>]

How do you declare a prototype in CL?

I know you can use callprc but without PR support.

HTH
Marco

--- Elvis Budimlic <ebudimlic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I have a C ile module with a function taking two char * (string) inputs.
> 
> I have a CL ile module that calls the C function erroneously passing in 3
> parameters.
> 
> Both modules compile error free.  CRTPGM signals no errors or warnings
> either.
> 
> There are no ill effects on the C function.  It seems to ignore the 3rd
> parameter.
> 
>  
> 
> My question is, shouldn't the linker (CRTPGM) check the entire procedure
> (function) signature including the parameters passed, not just the name?  
> 
> Or would that be the job of the CRTCLMOD compiler?
> 
>  
> 
> As I said, all works fine, but intuitively I would have expected either the
> CL compiler or the CRTPGM linker to complain about parameter mismatch.  What
> am I missing?
> 
> TIA
> 
>  
> 
> Elvis



                
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