Re: EXPORTing procedures

On 2020-11-12 1:18 p.m., Brian Parkins wrote:

Here's a puzzle. Does anyone have a good explanation? I have a source member containing two procedures - the main (entry) procedure and a subprocedure (PROC2). The main procedure calls the subprocedure.
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If I code this as a Linear Main program, PROC2 requires the EXPORT keyword, e.g.

**Free
Ctl-Opt DftActGrp(*No) ActGrp(*New) Main(Proc1);
Dcl-Proc Proc1;
// Main Entry procedure
  Dcl-PR Proc2;
  End-PR;
  Dsply 'In main Proc' '*REQUESTER';
  Proc2();
  Return;
End-Proc;
Dcl-Proc Proc2; // Edit: Brian's code had "Export"
// Internal subprocedure
  Dsply 'In Proc2' '*REQUESTER';
End-Proc;
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Brian, as others have suggested, the problem is that the prototype for Proc2 is coded as a local prototype in your main procedure. RPG only recognizes a prototype as being the prototype for a local procedure when the prototype is in the global definitions of the module.