Re: Key Names Not Known in Nested Programs

[Simon Sobisch]

Thank you for the bug report. GnuCOBOL was wrong here, the standard
explicit says under "scope of record-key-names":

> The record-key-name defined by a SOURCE phrase in the ALTERNATE
RECORD KEY clause [...] is global if the GLOBAL clause is specified in
the file description entry for that file

This has to be added in cobc/tree.c (finalize_file), I'm going to commit
the fix soon and the bugfix will be available in GnuCOBOL 3.2.

Thanks for pointing that out and providing the good test case,
Simon

Am 22.03.2021 um 19:44 schrieb Charlie Anderson:
> See attached "NestedKeyBut.CBL".
>
> Example is code which a key name compiles OK in the base program but
> causes one syntax error in the nested program. Strangely, only the first
> occurrence of the use of a key name in the nested program is reported as
> an error " 'People-NameKey' is not defined ".
>
> I have used the key name syntax in earlier COBOL 1985/89 implementations
> extensively and it is very useful.
>
> Charles T. Anderson