Hello Raymond,

Raymond Kennington wrote:

> This is a deprecated technique. Frank Ingermann quoted the following documentation:
>
> "<quote from doc0593.htm>
> 3)RETURNS PARAMETER N: Use this argument to the DECLARE EXTERNAL FUNCTION state
> ment
> that specifies that the return value for the UDF is stored in the input paramet
> er N. This feature has
> been deprecated and was not certified under 5.x; it was by accident that it was
> documented in the manuals."
>

note that i found this in a knowledgebase article, and i don't know
whether or not it might be outdated for Firebird - and i do trust Frank
(no, not myself, the other one<g>) when he writes something like this, as he is
an experienced fb devel - as you may recall, he was the one that found the
backdoor in IB6!)
cheers,
fingerman

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