Comments on: CLP parameters overwritten http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/clp-parameters-overwritten/ Thu, 23 May 2013 13:24:46 +0000 hourly 1 By: tomliotta http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/clp-parameters-overwritten/#comment-90453 tomliotta Mon, 04 Apr 2011 20:03:24 +0000 #comment-90453 I’m not so sure it’s a quirk exactly. It is the documented behavior and it makes sense.

I would think more in terms that the padding of short parameters out to 32 bytes is the ‘quirk’. If all undeclared parms were passed only to their limit of significant characters, this possibly would never cause confusion. I.e., if ‘ABCDE’ was passed as a *CHAR (5) element in memory, everyone would learn immediately how to handle it.

By enabling some mostly hidden memory management, the padding tends to obscure what really happens.

Tom

]]> By: jsebastians http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/clp-parameters-overwritten/#comment-90446 jsebastians Mon, 04 Apr 2011 13:31:36 +0000 #comment-90446 Thanks a lot!! It works!

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