Re: QtmsCreateSendEmail

[Simon Coulter <shc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 19/10/2008, at 11:31 PM, Peter Clifford wrote:

> Isn't this what makes it possible to use CONST with QtmmSendMail  
> but not
> with QtmsCreateSendEmail?

No, it's what makes it possible to use CONST with numeric arguments.  
Pointer by VALUE and variable by REFERENCE are the same. CONST just  
means you consider it input-only (which fits with allowing the  
compiler to use temporary locations).

Thus QtmsCreateSendEmail is expecting pointers by VALUE but you can  
quite happily pass variables by REFERENCE instead as long as your  
prototype is correct.

> I somehow don't think I'll be the last person to make this mistake...


Which is why I consider it a defect. You should open a PMR--before  
this gets too much use and then cannot be changed.

Really, you should NOT have to examine a C include to determine how  
to call an OS/400 API. ALL the necessary information should be in the  
API documentation.


Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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