Re: [open-cobol-list] Re: feature request: implementation "IS EXTERNAL" (semantics)

[Alain Lucari]

Le Fri, 14 Nov 2003 20:40:23 +0900
Keisuke Nishida <address@hidden> a écrit:

> 
> Gee, I misunderstood the effect of EXTERNAL.  What I did is to
> declare the field as an external variable in C.  The field is
> not actually defined, so the undefined reference error happened.
> 
> It seems a field with EXTERNAL should have both a declaration
> and a definition.  How can I implement this?  In C, there must
> be only one definition even if you compiled several modules.
> 
> Hmm, maybe we need to generate a special module for external
> variables, or we need to resolve the field at run time.
>
I think just like 'accept "filename" from environment-variable "filename".' 
or something same.

Regards,
-- 
Alain Lucari (Eurlix)