George, It really matters what flavor you're running.
If you run a flavor that puts the overspill in element zero, you may be ok. If you run a flavor that puts the overspill into the last element, that might mess up any accesses to that element in the existing code. Brian > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of George Gallen > Sent: 12 May 2005 16:01 > To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org > Subject: RE: [U2] I'm in an Array quandry, any suggestions... > > WOW. I just found an interesting "feature" of UV. > > You can MATREAD a record that has more fields than are dimensioned, > and you can MATWRITE that record back out INTACT without > getting an error, > > It only bombs with an out of bounds error when you try to > reference a subscript > past the dimension. > > So....as long as any of those program dont try to mess with > data it doesn't know > about, we "should" be safe. > > George > > >-----Original Message----- > >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of George Gallen > > > >I'm modifying some programs that were written about 15-20 years ago, > >there must be 30 or 40 that > > interact with each other. > > > >Here is the problem. > >All the programs use dimensioned arrays, and they were > dimensioned to > >exactly what was needed at the time, now I need to add 4 > fields to one > >program. But I'm afraid if another program reads this newly created > >array, it will bomb out with an array out of bounds error. > > > >What is on my side, is all the programs that reference these > files, all > >use the same variable name. > > > >My initial thought was to write a small program that will > > 1. open a program > > 2. search for a dimension of the suspect variable(s) > > 3. increase it's dimension level > > 4. write the program back out > > 5. recompile the program (I don't believe any are cataloged) > > > >Any other ideas? > ------- > u2-users mailing list > u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org > To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
