Re: *Entry Plist -- RPG400-L

Subject: Re: *Entry Plist
From: Barbara Morris <bmorris@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2005 13:29:58 -0500
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Lim Hock-Chai wrote:
> AFAIK, subfield is not allowed.  However, you could use the datastructure 
> (meaning LibsData)
> as the parm.
...
> 
> I wonder Barbara can elaborate as why this is being restricted.
> 

The subfields of a data structure have to be in contiguous storage.  The
storage for a parameter can be anywhere, so any subfield passed in as an
entry parameter would have to be somehow not really part of the data
structure.

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