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While checking the existing support for extent variables/properties the following case was discovered:

OpenEdge.Core.Assert:Equals(3, EXTENT(extVar)).

Converts to:

Assert.legacyEquals(new integer(3), aux.length);

For this case, compilation fails because legacyEquals is supposed to receive only progress data types (and not Java native int). Notice the missing wrapping in a integer constructor of the second argument. This happens because of missing the chp_wrapper annotation.

We traced the problem to the typelist annotation not emitting but we soon realized that there is a need for a enhanced processing of builtin classes/methods. We need to emit the typelist and param_modes annotations at the AST definition node for the builtin method and a way to resolve the "refid" for builtin class methods (via tempidx-file and associated annotations).