Rational Developer for System z
Enterprise PL/I for z/OS, Version 3.8, Language Reference Manual

POINTERVALUE

POINTERVALUE returns a pointer value that is the converted value of x.

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Abbreviation: PTRVALUE

x
Expression that must have either the HANDLE attribute, or have a computational type. If x has a computational type, it is converted to FIXED BINARY(31,0).

POINTERVALUE(x) can be used to initialize static pointer variables if x is a constant.


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