Re: Pointer Error

On Jan 13, 2012, at 1:00 PM, rpg400-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Jon, this scenario doesn't cause an error. (I didn't think it should,
but I tried it just in case.) It looks like the resolved system pointer
to the program is not related to the called program's activation group.

That's interesting ... I always believed that the invocation was tied to the AG.

I wonder how it does work then? I can't see how/why the situation is any different to the Service Program scenario. The SrvPgm problem arrises because there's nothing to tell the caller that it needs to reinitialize the proc ptrs because the original copy has gone away. So what causes the OPM program to re-resolve the pgm pointer? If it doesn't need to re-resolve then why is there a problem with srvpgms? It just seems that if it breaks in one scenario it should break in both.


Jon Paris

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