CL 5.7 upgrade from 5.4 — Tcl 8.4 — possible gotcha

[Troy Morton]

I don’t know if anyone else has run into this yet, but we are in the process of testing Cloverleaf 5.7 (upgrading from 5.4) and we ran into this interesting error when testing some of our TPS procs.

Code:

     errorInfo: ‘
extra switch pattern with no body
   while executing
“switch -exact — $mode {
       start {

The problem turned out to be comments embedded between the switch bodies like this:

Code:

switch -exact — $mode {

  start {
      …code here…
  } ;# End of Start Section

  run {
      …run code here…
  } ;# End of Run Section

  shutdown {
      …shutdown code here…
  } ;# End of Shutdown Section

  default {
  }

We removed the comments “;# End of

Section” that fell after the end of one section but before the next section and that fixed the problem.

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[Jim Kosloskey]

Yes we just went back and corrected that where necessary for our 5.6 upgrade.

email: jim.kosloskey@jim-kosloskey.com 29+ years Cloverleaf, 59 years IT - old fart.

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