PM66780: recursive call causes infinite loop via EGL debugger

Rational Business Developer Fix Pack 4 (8.0.1.4) for 8.0.1
Rational Business Developer 8.5.1
Rational Business Developer Fix Pack 2 (8.5.1.2) for 8.5.1

APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• Environment: Windows
  Product name: IBM? Rational? Business Developer
  Program Version    : 8.0.1.3
  Description.
  The EGL debugger fails to handle local variable values with
  recursive calls in differing scenarios.
  
  Running the EGL debuggger through the following example
  statement causes an infinite loop from output:
   counter int;
   for (counter from 1 to 2 by 1) 4
  
  Changing the conditional statement to:
   for (counter int from 1 to 2 by 1)
  
  Will throw an error dialog popup failure from the EGL debugger
  before terminating ie
  'com.ibm.etools.egl.interpreter.infrastructure.InternalDebuggerE
  xception:
  Could not resolve the runtime part for the variable named
  counter.'
  

Local fix

Problem summary

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  When using a FOR or FOREACH statement in a recursive
  function invocation, the debugger was improperly
  re-initializing the counter variable in the non-innermost
  function invocation.
  

Problem conclusion

• Recursion is no longer causing initialization ? increment
  problems with FOR/FOREACH loops.
  

Temporary fix

Comments

APAR Information

• APAR is sysrouted FROM one or more of the following:

• APAR is sysrouted TO one or more of the following:

Fix information

• Fixed component name

  RATL BUS DEV

• Fixed component ID

  5724S5000

Applicable component levels

• R801 PSN

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