Copyright (c) Digital Equipment Corporation 1992. All rights reserved
PRODUCT:  VAX PLI                           OP/SYS:  VMS

SOURCE:     Digital Customer Support Center

VERSION INFORMATION:

     Symptom Identified On:  VAX PLI V3.n


SYMPTOM:

At runtime, a PLI program will fail with these error messages on line 1:

%PLI-F-ERROR, PL/I ERROR condition.
-PLI-F-AUTOINIT, Error in automatic initialization.
%TRACE-F-TRACEBACK, symbolic stack dump follows
module name     routine name                     line       rel PC    abs PC

                                                           000041EF  000041EF
ML              ML                                  1      00000025  00000225


ANALYSIS:

The following program will exhibit the AUTOINIT error message when
STEPping to the first line of code in the debugger.  The program was
compiled and linked:

$pli/noopt/debug ml
$link/debug ml
$run ml

ml: proc options(main);

dcl my_array(10) fixed bin(31) initial(0);
dcl i fixed bin(31);

do i = 1 to 10;
 my_array(i) = i;
end;

end ml;


SOLUTION:

The initialization of the array causes the AUTOINIT error.  It should be
corrected to: initial ((10) 0).


DIGITAL RESPONSE:

This issue has been elevated for further review.

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