I understand I did a find on openfile in the member and header files and it was found in three places at the function Pragma prologue and epilog
I believe this to be a defect and opened a service request ticket with IBM Thank you > On Jan 6, 2021, at 12:22 PM, Linda Chui <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, 30 Dec 2020 21:37:56 -0500, Joseph Reichman <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi >> >> >> >> I am getting the following error on a CATTR Assembly statement >> >> >> >> 0001B0A 00000000 00001B51 2833 OPENFI#C CSECT , >> 000000 >> >> � 2834 M_WSA CATTR >> RMODE(ANY),PART(openfile),NOTEXECUTABLE,ALIGN(2) 000000 >> >> �** ASMA155S Previous use of symbol is not this section type >> >> �** ASMA167E Required name missing >> >> �** ASMA435I Record 2371 in IBMUSER.TEST.SOURCE(OPENFILE) on volume: JOEABC >> >> >> >> >> >> Openfile is the name of my C function it is not a global variable don�t >> know why the compiler is generating a CATTR statement >> >> >> >> #ifdef __MVS__ >> >> BOOL openfile(int *aletd, char *filename, void *sysptrs) >> >> { >> >> >> >> When I change the function name from openfile to something else e.g. openfil >> I don�t get the error don�t get it >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > Hi Joseph, > > (posted on behalf of a colleague) > > The M_WSA class is for Metal C reentrancy support. The PART name there is > what references the objects that are re-entrant. In the user's case, they > have openfile listed as a part meaning that either the function is considered > an object (not a function) that is reentrant (perhaps due to the expansion of > the BOOL macro in their environment) or that they have another reentrant > object somewhere that is named ‘openfile’ (they can pre-process the source to > check which case it is). The error they get from the assembler indicates the > latter case. i.e. They have another definition or reference to an object > named ‘openfile’ somewhere in their source (or their include file chain). > > > Hope this helps? > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
