[Info-vax] Basic & Global sections

[Scott Dorsey]

John Doppke  <jdoppke at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>I've been playing with some inter-process communication via Basic using a g=
>lobal section.  It all works very well except for one thing - data in an ar=
>ray.  Everything else comes across nicely - strings, longs, etc.  But anyth=
>ing in an array written by one process never shows up in the other.
>
>Is there something inherent in the structure of a Basic array that doesn't =
>work in a global section?

I don't know BASIC, but if the array is secretly a pointer like it is in
many languages, then passing the pointer to another process is likely not
useful since the process can't see the data.
--scott


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