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  • Subject: RE: Use of IMPORT with lower case variables
  • From: Tim McCarthy <TimM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 14:05:18 -0400

No, I've tried this on V4R3.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phil Hall [SMTP:hallp@ssax.com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 08, 1999 12:28 PM
> To:   MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      Re: Use of IMPORT with lower case variables
> 
> 
> 
> Tim McCarthy wrote:
> > 
> > I have an annoying little problem I've run into before but never
> > resolved. How can I import a lower case named variable defined in a
> C
> > module into an RPG program? Since RPG converts names to upper case I
> get
> > an error at link time. The manual states that the keyword EXTNAME
> can be
> > used with IMPORT but...IMPORT must be used on a field definition and
> > EXTNAME is not allowed for a field definition.!!
> 
> This was changed on V4rx i think, I had the same problem, but found
> that
> the IMPORT does now allow lowercase import names (the case is
> preserved
> at compile time)
> 
> V3rx doesn't do it or at least my copy of v3r2 & v3r7)
> 
> --phil
> 
> 
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