>It's not a COM question, it's a DLL question.
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>I have a DLL that's defined as:
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>DECLARE integer foo IN 'foo.dll" double @value1, double @value2
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>Notice that the parameters are by reference, so they must exist from the calling code.
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>So I call it with:
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>value1=0
>value2=0
>foo(@value1,@value2)
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>The result is that value1 and value2 come back with a strange value such as 2.63E-308.
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>I have no idea what's happening. I haven't done any DLL work in a while so I'm clueless. Any ideas? It's times like this I really miss Ed Rauh.

John,
are you sure what the function foo returns doubles with little-endian rule.
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?0h+BINTOC(value1,"BR")