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

AUTOMATIC

AUTOMATIC allocates storage of size n automatic storage and returns the pointer to the allocated storage.

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Abbreviation: AUTO

n
Expression. n must be nonnegative. If necessary, n is converted to REAL FIXED BINARY(31,0).

The storage acquired cannot be explicitly freed; the storage is automatically freed when the block terminates.


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