Pro*C Variables and Define Tokens

I am having trouble declaring Pro*C variables using #define tokens. In my (UNIX) application, we have an include header file that has #define tokens for all our data elements. When declaring a 'C' or database variable, we always use the #define token. For example, if a customer name variable were needed, we code:

        char custname[CUSTNAME_SZ + 1]; /* add one for NULL byte */

This helps us easily maintain the application if data elements should change size. I have found, however, that the Pro*C compiler (pcc) reports an error when I use this construct:

Precompiling x.pc
  20 VARCHAR custname[CUSTNAME_SZ + 1];

  20 ........................^
     PCC-S-0018:  Expected "<unsigned_integer>", but found "CUSTNAME_SZ" at
					line 20 in file x.pc

  25                 where cust_id = :cust_id;
  25 ........................................^
     PCC-S-0026:  Undeclared host variable "cust_id" at line 25 in file x.pc

I understand that the second error (PCC-S-0026) is really a result of the first error. What I cannot believe is that the Pro*C precompiler cannot recognize #define tokens (and, by the way, it balks at the "+" sign as well). This is very important to our application; it took many months to standardize all our code with the #define tokens. Does anyone know how to get this to work?

Marianne Received on Tue Sep 22 1992 - 19:53:44 CEST