This chapter briefly descibes the known limitations and problems with SysWorks.

4.1 Entry Points in MACRO-32

Entry points used for dependency analysis in the MMS generator require the .ENTRY or PROCEDURE (supported in SysWorks SWDEVMAC.MLB macro library) syntax.

4.2 Entry Points in C

External references in C, CXX, H, HXX, RC and SC sources must be declared with the EXTERN keyword.

4.3 CVTMMS various

There are some inconsistencies in how various source types (eg. .COB and .IFDL) handle copies or includes from the CDD. These will be made fully consistent in a future release of SysWorks.

The following guidelines on the future standard treatment should help:

• Dictionary items starting with appl_RECORDS. will always be treated as a local (i.e. application) record, with dependencies built around a .TAG_CDD file in the application library directory.
• Dictionary items starting with appl_FIELDS. will always be treated as a local field with .TAG_CDD dependencies.
• Dictionary items starting with the application code and ending with REC will be treated as local records with .TAG_CDD dependencies.
• Dictionary items without any periods and ending with REC will be treated as a local record with .TAG_CDD dependencies.
• Dictionary items without any periods will be treated as a local field with .TAG_CDD dependencies.
• Other dictionary items will be treated as external items using the MMS ~^ (i.e. uparrow) dependencies.

Note that the dictionary item will be checked in the order indicated in the above list.