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Basically what I thought. The compiler stops you from doing it and that confirms Barbara statements. I used the OPDESC before VARYING. Just going to have to be more careful about the size of VARYING fields. -----Original Message----- From: HauserSSS [mailto:Hauser@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2005 10:21 PM To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries Subject: AW: VARLEN field read into LIKEREC DS >>Given that we have a procedure with a VARYING string of 32767 passed by reference >>and I decide in a calling program to pass a normal field char(20), what is going to happen? A pointer to the 20 byte field is passed to the procedure. But if you do not specify neither VALUE nor CONST your calling procedure will not compile.
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