RE: Definition not found for internally defined procedure

Scott,

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[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Scott Klement
Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2004 11:04 AM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: Definition not found for internally defined procedure


Hi Rick,

>I assume that this is a message that occurs during binding, and shows up
>in your job log?

Yes.

>Here's the thing that surprises me.  The message that you posted says that
>the program is looking for something called 'CmpVal' -- but the code that
>you posted contains a procedure called 'CMPVAL' -- ILE procedure names are
>case-sensitive, so these would be two different procedures!

I'm not seeing an explicit reference to 'CMPVAL' in the code.  Either in the 
source or the previous message.  Are you referring to the conversion mentioned 
farther down in your message?

>I suspect that you've got %paddr('CmpVal') coded somewhere.   Or that
>you've coded an EXTPROC statement that you didn't show us when you posted
>your prototype.

Yep, %paddr('CmpVal').

>Try making it read:  %paddr(CmpVal)  (without the quotes) this will tell
>RPG to use the procedure name from the CmpVal prototype.  When you put the
>procedure name in quotes, ala %paddr('CmpVal') it directly searches for a
>procedure with that exact name instead of checking the prototype.

Removing the quotes worked but I'm not sure I'm following all of this.  Where 
is it searching for a prototype?  I thought it searched the source first before 
going to binding directories.  I compared the prototype to the definition many 
times to check for stuff like case to make sure they matched.  I'm confused as 
to why the compiler didn't match them up.

>If you do want to use the procedure name directly, it should be
>%paddr('CMPVAL') since (in the absense of an EXTPROC keyword) RPG converts
>subprocedure names to all-uppercase.