FORMS statement error number -6208

[Mark W.]

>>Hi Rene, that didn't work.  Can I mail the source to you privately?  I don't want to post it on a public forum.

That's the idea.
Rene

OK, I'm a new to this forum.  Where do I get your email address?

[Reuben B.]

I've seen this error with FourGen style code where you have the same .4gl in two different directories.

Look at the value of $FGLLDPATH and check in each of these directories (and the current directory) for another instance of U_security.42m

If my hunch is right, if you have FGLLDPATH=/some_other_directory:dcs/UTIL.4gm you will find in some_other_directory another U_security.42m

Reuben

[Mark W.]

I've seen this error with FourGen style code where you have the same .4gl in two different directories.

Look at the value of $FGLLDPATH and check in each of these directories (and the current directory) for another instance of U_security.42m

If my hunch is right, if you have FGLLDPATH=/some_other_directory:dcs/UTIL.4gm you will find in some_other_directory another U_security.42m

Reuben

Thanks for your reply.  There is only one instance of this module in the FGLLDPATH directories.

[Mark W.]

OK, I've found out what the problem was: the new module was not, for some reason, deployed to the modules directory, so the program was trying to run the old version.  I still have a question, however: should the error message not have been something along the lines of "Cannot find function xyz" instead of the cryptic message that "the module is already loaded."?

[Rene S.]

Hello,
your problem des not exist in recent versions of Genero.

This is the output of a simple test, covering your problem: the runtime calls f1() and loads m2. When calling f2() the runtime tries to load m2 again.

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sh test.sh
+ fglrun -V
fglrun 2.02.20 build-966.107
Built Nov 12 2013 08:11:39
(c) 1989-2009 Four J's Development Tools
+ fglcomp m1
+ cp m2a.4gl m2.4gl
+ fglcomp m2
+ fglrun -l m1.42m m2.42m
+ fglrun m1
here: f1
here: f2
+ cp m2b.4gl m2.4gl
+ fglcomp m2
+ fglrun m1
here: f1
FORMS statement error number -6208.
Module 'm2': already loaded.


Now the same test with a recent version:

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sh test.sh
+ fglrun -V
fglrun 2.50.00 build-2201
Genero virtual machine
Target linux

Four Js*
Licensed Materials - Property of Four Js
(c) Copyright Four Js 1995, 2012. All Rights Reserved.
* Trademark of Four Js Development Tools Europe Ltd
  in the United States and elsewhere
+ fglcomp m1
+ cp m2a.4gl m2.4gl
+ fglcomp m2
+ fglrun -l m1.42m m2.42m
+ fglrun m1
here: f1
here: f2
+ cp m2b.4gl m2.4gl
+ fglcomp m2
+ fglrun m1
here: f1
Program stopped at 'm1.4gl', line number 3.
FORMS statement error number -1338.
The function 'f2' has not been defined in any module in the program.


The error message should be enhanced anyway. The runtime should uses the (already existing) error 6207: The dynamic loaded module '%s' does not contain the function '%s'.

Rene

[Mark W.]

Thanks Rene...