RE: *Entry to /Free problem

["Wilt, Charles" <CWilt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Scott Klement
> Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 2:31 PM
> To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
> Subject: Re: *Entry to /Free problem
> 
> Also, don't listen to the people that told you to remove 
> EXTPGM.  You CAN 
> remove it if you like, but you don't need to.  I'd suggest 
> keeping it, 
> since, once again, the goal will be for the caller to be able 
> to USE that 
> prototype to call your program.  Unless the caller is 
> directly bound to 
> your program, it won't be able to call it without EXTPGM.  
> Removing it 
> won't help or hurt you or make any difference at all if 
> you're not using 
> the prototype to call it.

Ah-ha,

That's what was tickling my brain.

EXTPGM isn't strictly required in the source for the called program.
But obviously it is needed in any code that wants to call the program
using a prototype.  

Since the prototype should be /COPY'd into both the called and calling
programs, you'd want to have the EXTPGM there.

All I know is I've always put it in there since Barbara first told me
how to replace the *ENTRY PLIST in a reponse to a question posted in the
newsgroup back in 1998.


Thanks for the refresher Scott,

Charles Wilt