In the sample, if you try to refactor the st_mtime variable to FileStats.st_mtime on the C-spec, it won't let you. It tells you it's an invalid name.
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From: Edmund Reinhardt [mailto:edmund.reinhardt@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2017 8:58 AM
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Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Refactor & Qualified DS
Hi Justin
I think I understand what is going on.
In the source code as it stands both references to the subfield refer to the statds DS so of course that works. But I think you intended the line to be
st_mtime = FileStats.st_mtime;
and in that case, it still works and renames the subfield in statds.
The real clue comes from the fact that statds was originally declared in a /INCLUDE
Refactoring does not currently process /INCLUDE and /COPY files. At this point the refactoring has to be redone in every file. The challenge in your example is, because the refactoring doesn't see the /include, it has no idea that st_mtime is a subfield in the data structure referenced in the LIKEDS. It just sees it as another dangling reference without a definition.
This limitation is one of my next priorities but of course an RFE is always helpful because I have many "next priorities".
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Edmund (E.H.)
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