Re: link list returned from service program -- RPG400-L

Subject: Re: link list returned from service program
From: Buck <kc2hiz@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:42:11 -0400
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Lim Hock-Chai wrote:

In my service program, I do %alloc(%size(myDS)). This allocated memory
is then added to the list like myDSLast.next = myDS.... (The standard
link list stuff)

Not safe. When the AG is destroyed, so is all of it's storage. If the caller passed a parameter to the service program and the service program manipulated that, you would be OK because the caller owns that storage.
--buck

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