Re: Call a C program from RPG with variables & a return

On 2/17/2016 11:29 AM, Stephen Mooney wrote:
> Charles,
> Thank you for your suggestion.  I was using the SQL set function after calculating the total for three months:
> $Tot03 = ($AvgH(1) * $AvgH(2)  * $AvgH(3))
> 
> SET :$Geo03  =  :$Tot03 ** (1/:$Root03);  
> 
> And that works fine.  When I try it with 12 month's, the result field is not large enough (set to 63P) and the program errs.  Same happens with:
> $Tot12 = ($AvgH(1) * $AvgH(2)  * $AvgH(3) *                      $AvgH(4) * $AvgH(5)  * $AvgH(6) *                      $AvgH(7) * $AvgH(8)  * $AvgH(9) *                      $AvgH(10) * $AvgH(11)  * $AvgH(12))                    ** (1/12); 
> I think I need to use 'C' because if I declare the result field as "double" I do not have the restriction I do in RPG.                                Regards, Stephen M. Mooney

RPG supports double as dcl-s bigNumber float(8);

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