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["Lim Hock-Chai" <Lim.Hock-Chai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Just curious the reason of based keyword design in RPG.  If they are
tightly integrated, why not just allow doing the following:
%addr(myField) = myPointer;  

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[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Scott Klement
Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2006 12:27 PM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: dealloc (Correction)


> Assuming that myField_P is the based of myField, does these two 
> statements yield same result?
>
> Statement 1 ==>   dealloc myField_P;
> Statement 2 ==>   myField_P = *null;


No.  The first statement releases memory so that it's available for
other programs to use for other purposes.

The second statement sets a pointer to null (so that it no longer points
to a valid space in memory.)
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