Arguments

 

resultant-string

   OpenVMS usage:char_string
   type:         character string
   access:       write only
   mechanism:    by descriptor

   Destination string into which LIB$GET_COMMON writes the string
   copied from the common area. The resultant-string argument is the
   address of a descriptor pointing to the destination string.
 

resultant-length

   OpenVMS usage:word_unsigned
   type:         word (unsigned)
   access:       write only
   mechanism:    by reference

   Number of characters written into resultant-string by LIB$GET_
   COMMON, not counting padding in the case of a fixed-length
   string. The resultant-length argument is the address of an
   unsigned word integer containing the number of characters copied.
   If the input string is truncated to the size specified in the
   resultant-string descriptor, resultant-length is set to this
   size. Therefore, resultant-length can always be used by the
   calling program to access a valid substring of resultant-string.