RE: Byte Alignment question with Change User Space Attributes API(QUSCUSAT)

[Scott Klement <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> You can't really align a DS subfield,

Sorry, that's not true at all.  Indeed, that's exactly what the ALIGN 
keyword does, it aligns the DS subfields.


> Use the ALIGN keyword on the DS itself, but I think RPG aligns DS's anyway
> so it shouldn't be an issue for you.

No, RPG does not align a DS on a 4-byte boundary by default.

You're thinking of the way that memory allocations are aligned, which is 
sort of related... but the API only accepts one parameter (and thus one 
memory allocation) for all of the keys it receives.  It requires that the 
various keys passed by aligned on 4 byte boundaries within that single 
allocation.... which won't be done automatically in RPG.