COMMON area insert name

PARADYME uses a standard COMMON block to load the values of system variables into the programs generated. In addition however, you may add your own supplementary COMMON area. To do this you should set up an item in the program file. This item will contain the coding that declares the COMMON area. The name of this item is entered for this parameter.

PARADYME will see if an item with this name exists. If it does it will be loaded into the generated routine. If you do not specify a COMMON area name then PARADYME will examine the program file to see if an item called 'COMMON' exists. If it does it will be loaded into the generated routine as a supplementary COMMON block.

If both these methods fail to locate an item then no extra COMMON area will be loaded. Care should be taken when defining variables in COMMON blocks to avoid naming variables defined in the standard block used by PARADYME.

You must also be careful that no COMMON variables are allowed to appear as subroutine call parameters.

The program file mentioned above is the file into which the generated routine will be filed. The name of the file is displayed at the top of the screen.

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