Scott,
I believe that he was attempting to create some sort of generic processing
(based on a prior message). In that event, the name of the Ds may not be known
at run time.
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From: Scott Klement <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: RPG programming on the IBM i / System i <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Fri, November 19, 2010 2:22:33 PM
Subject: Re: Trying to get the size of a Datastructure through the pointer?
Possible? Not having good luck with it...
Hi Bryce,
My question, is it possible to get the size of MasterList_T from its
basing pointer? Is there a bif or something that will let me get
it?
RPG does not have "typed pointers". A pointer in RPG does not imply a
particular data type/structure layout. It simply points to a byte in
the system. And a byte is always 1 byte long! :)
The correct way to find out the size of the pointer is by doing
%size(MasterList_t), in other words, asking for the size of the thing
the pointer is based on. What is your objection to that technique?
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