RE: cvtch revisited

["Dennis Lovelady" <iseries@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Barbara Morris wrote:

> #      D cvtch           PR                  ExtProc('cvtch')
> #      D  ptrcharOut                32767    Options(*VarSize)
> #      D  ptrHexIn                  65534    Const
> #      D  charLength                   10I 0 Value
>
> #        cvtch(ASCII: hexIn: hexLen) ;
>
> Dennis, when I looked at your code, I thought the problem was going to
> be related to the length parameter.  You named the parameter
> "charLength" so I thought you were going to pass in the length of the
> first parameter (ptrCharOut).  But the call is correct, passing the
> length of the second hex parameter (ptrHexIn).
>
> So the prototype isn't really incorrect, but it's misleading.

Point taken, Barbara, thank you.  I'm not sure of the history that caused me
to use that name.  I do know that in both cases (cvtch, cvthc) the length
parameter expresses the longer (the hex) length.

Regards,

Dennis Lovelady
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