RE: Specifying a data structure on a prototype

[Ken Sims <mdrg5003@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Joe, et.al. -

> I don't know what the exact restrictions are on getting the address of CONST
> parameters are, but I didn't specify CONST on mine.  In fact, I don't want
> to specify CONST; I'm using the data structure as a single bidirectional
> parameter block.  So "pDS = %addr(parm1)" works just ducky for me.

I think all you can do with the address of a CONST parameter is check it 
against *NULL.  If you could use the actual address, you could modify the 
data, which isn't allowed for CONST parameters.

With older versions of the compiler you couldn't even check the address 
against *NULL.

Ken
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