Re: Declaring the same DS in caller and callee -- RPG400-L

Subject: Re: Declaring the same DS in caller and callee
From: Adam Glauser <adamglauser@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:41:47 -0500
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Kurt Anderson wrote:

[N]ormally the Based keyword has a pointer as its parameter (e.g. Based(pMyVar)). However, if you give it a bogus pointer, no memory will ever be allocated for that variable - hence it's "template" nature.

Now that I think of it, both of our posts are slightly misleading on this point. The TEMPLATE variable (type pointer) will be created by the compiler, so technically that declaration will cause _some_ memory to be allocated, though with luck it will be far less the entire structure.

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