[Info-vax] Any Way to Pass Character String Arguments from C to Basic?

[John Reagan]

On Monday, October 21, 2019 at 9:18:10 AM UTC-7, Robert A. Brooks wrote:
> On 10/21/2019 11:31 AM, Craig Dedo wrote:
>  
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> > Everything compiles and links correctly; no errors or warnings at all.
> > When I run the program everything works fine until I try to assign character string data back into character string arguments> that are associated with character strings in the C program.
> > * Assignment of character string arguments from the C program to variables in the Basic subroutine works fine.
> > * Assignment of integer results from the Basic subroutine to the integer arguments in the C program works fine.
> 
> > * BUT when I try to assign character string values to a character string argument in the C program, I get a fatal error:
> > %STR-F-FATINTERR, fatal internal error
>  To be clear, you get this error not when you are calling the BASIC subroutine, but when you attempt to do the string assignment in the C source
> prior to calling the BASIC subroutine?
>  
> Let's see the C actual source.
> 
> I don't see this support call in our internal bug tracking system yet.
>  
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>                       -- Rob

Like Rob, I want to see the C code that is building the descriptor and that you are building a CLASS_D, not a CLASS_S.  Plus the descriptor needs to be writeable since the BASIC code (via the STR$ routines) will want to update it.

And who says descriptors make things easier?