Problem Note 56982: PROC FCMP step fails with "ERROR: Assignment of incompatible types. Cannot take address of returned value for assignment to pointer type."
When you run a PROC FCMP step that contains an expression with each of the following:
- a call to an FCMP-defined function, and
- an embedded function call as an argument to the FCMP-defined function
the FCMP step might fail with the following parsing error in the SAS log:
ERROR: Assignment of incompatible types. Cannot take address of returned value
for assignment to pointer type.
For example, the problem occurs in the following expression if the function FOO is defined in FCMP and the function BAR is defined in PROTO:
a = foo({1,2,3,4,5,6}, {1,2,3,4,5,6}, 15) + foo({1,2,3,4,5,6}, {1,2,3,4,5,6}, bar(b));
The problem occurs due to overly restrictive parsing that requires the return type to match for each function in the expression.
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Operating System and Release Information
SAS System | Base SAS | z/OS | 9.4_M2 | 9.4_M4 | 9.4 TS1M2 | 9.4 TS1M4 |
z/OS 64-bit | 9.4_M2 | 9.4_M4 | 9.4 TS1M2 | 9.4 TS1M4 |
Microsoft® Windows® for x64 | 9.4_M2 | 9.4_M4 | 9.4 TS1M2 | 9.4 TS1M4 |
Microsoft Windows 8 Enterprise 32-bit | 9.4_M2 | 9.4_M4 | 9.4 TS1M2 | 9.4 TS1M4 |
Microsoft Windows 8 Enterprise x64 | 9.4_M2 | 9.4_M4 | 9.4 TS1M2 | 9.4 TS1M4 |
Microsoft Windows 8 Pro 32-bit | 9.4_M2 | 9.4_M4 | 9.4 TS1M2 | 9.4 TS1M4 |
Microsoft Windows 8 Pro x64 | 9.4_M2 | 9.4_M4 | 9.4 TS1M2 | 9.4 TS1M4 |
Microsoft Windows 8.1 Enterprise 32-bit | 9.4_M2 | 9.4_M4 | 9.4 TS1M2 | 9.4 TS1M4 |
Microsoft Windows 8.1 Enterprise x64 | 9.4_M2 | 9.4_M4 | 9.4 TS1M2 | 9.4 TS1M4 |
Microsoft Windows 8.1 Pro | 9.4_M2 | 9.4_M4 | 9.4 TS1M2 | 9.4 TS1M4 |
Microsoft Windows 8.1 Pro 32-bit | 9.4_M2 | 9.4_M4 | 9.4 TS1M2 | 9.4 TS1M4 |
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 | 9.4_M2 | 9.4_M4 | 9.4 TS1M2 | 9.4 TS1M4 |
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 | 9.4_M2 | 9.4_M4 | 9.4 TS1M2 | 9.4 TS1M4 |
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 for x64 | 9.4_M2 | 9.4_M4 | 9.4 TS1M2 | 9.4 TS1M4 |
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Datacenter | 9.4_M2 | 9.4_M4 | 9.4 TS1M2 | 9.4 TS1M4 |
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter | 9.4_M2 | 9.4_M4 | 9.4 TS1M2 | 9.4 TS1M4 |
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Std | 9.4_M2 | 9.4_M4 | 9.4 TS1M2 | 9.4 TS1M4 |
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Std | 9.4_M2 | 9.4_M4 | 9.4 TS1M2 | 9.4 TS1M4 |
Windows 7 Enterprise 32 bit | 9.4_M2 | 9.4_M4 | 9.4 TS1M2 | 9.4 TS1M4 |
Windows 7 Enterprise x64 | 9.4_M2 | 9.4_M4 | 9.4 TS1M2 | 9.4 TS1M4 |
Windows 7 Home Premium 32 bit | 9.4_M2 | 9.4_M4 | 9.4 TS1M2 | 9.4 TS1M4 |
Windows 7 Home Premium x64 | 9.4_M2 | 9.4_M4 | 9.4 TS1M2 | 9.4 TS1M4 |
Windows 7 Professional 32 bit | 9.4_M2 | 9.4_M4 | 9.4 TS1M2 | 9.4 TS1M4 |
Windows 7 Professional x64 | 9.4_M2 | 9.4_M4 | 9.4 TS1M2 | 9.4 TS1M4 |
Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit | 9.4_M2 | 9.4_M4 | 9.4 TS1M2 | 9.4 TS1M4 |
Windows 7 Ultimate x64 | 9.4_M2 | 9.4_M4 | 9.4 TS1M2 | 9.4 TS1M4 |
64-bit Enabled AIX | 9.4_M2 | 9.4_M4 | 9.4 TS1M2 | 9.4 TS1M4 |
64-bit Enabled Solaris | 9.4_M2 | 9.4_M4 | 9.4 TS1M2 | 9.4 TS1M4 |
HP-UX IPF | 9.4_M2 | 9.4_M4 | 9.4 TS1M2 | 9.4 TS1M4 |
Linux for x64 | 9.4_M2 | 9.4_M4 | 9.4 TS1M2 | 9.4 TS1M4 |
Solaris for x64 | 9.4_M2 | 9.4_M4 | 9.4 TS1M2 | 9.4 TS1M4 |
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Type: | Problem Note |
Priority: | high |
Date Modified: | 2015-11-04 16:16:13 |
Date Created: | 2015-11-02 06:53:18 |