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Tips & Techniques -
Programming
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Written by Barbara Morris
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Sunday, 15 September 2002 18:00 |
When debugging ILE RPG code, to see what a pointer is pointing to, you can use :x or :c when using the EVAL debugger command on the pointer itself. This means you can debug a pointer's value without having an RPG BASED variable.
This shows the first 10 bytes that "ptr" is pointing to, as character data:
===> EVAL ptr:c 10
This shows the first 10 bytes that "ptr" is pointing to, in hex:
===> EVAL ptr:x 10
This is useful when the pointer is pointing to data that is not readable as
character data--for example, packed data. If ptr is pointing to a packed
field with the value 12345, ptr:x 3 would show you X'12345F'.
--Barbara Morris
bmorris@ca.ibm.com
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Last Updated on Thursday, 11 June 2009 16:42 |
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