RESALIB Compilation Fails Due to Presence of Special Characters Such As Hyphen (-) or Dot (.) On Code Column of CODE_DETAIL Table (Doc ID 1638695.1)

Last updated on APRIL 16, 2019

Applies to:

Symptoms

RESALIB Compilation fails while executing make-command with below error when Code field Of CODE_DETAIL includes a (-) character even though CODE is a VARCHAR2(6) field.

Error
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"sastdlen.h:22:1: warning: "LEN_CODE_DESC" redefined
In file included from sagetref.h:12,
from sacode.c:7:
std_len.h:27:1: warning: this is the location of the previous definition
In file included from salib.h:12,
from sacode.c:8:
sacodes.h:4501: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘-’ token
sacodes.h:4502: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘-’ token
sacodes.h:4503: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘-’ token
sacodes.h:4504: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘-’ token
sacodes.h:4505: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘-’ token
sacodes.h:4506: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘-’ token
sacodes.h:4507: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘-’ token"

 Steps to Reproduce
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The issue can be reproduced at will with the following steps:

1. Add a CODE with a (-) character, say OI-001.
2. Execute make-command for RESALIB.MK file.
3. Notice the error.

What is Working
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If you do not include the (.) character such as 050 the compilation runs successfully.

Changes

Cause

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