When the based variable's basing pointer is pointer based...

.... you can't use debug to display it.

I have a data structure which is pointer based (the data is in the
heap):

d recordDS ds Based(ds@)
d parent@ *
d objLen 10i 0
d objDat 10i 0
d objSiz 10i 0
d objVar 1a


ds@ is a pointer based variable:

d ds@ s * Based(ds@@)

ds@@ contains a pointer to a position within a user space.
The user space contains pointers to linked list entries in the heap.
I use qsort to resequence the pointers within the user space, and
then I read the sorted linked list by incrementing through the user
space.

The program, amazingly enough, didn't work the first time, so
I threw it into debug, and executed:

eval recordDS

which got me an error message, that the data was not available.


I got around this by defining a debug data structure:

d debugDS s 1024a Based(debug@)



When I execute:

eval debug@ = ds@

then:

eval debugDS

the contents of recordDS are displayed.

Chris
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