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The following code sample causes the error message Calling procedure /home/hc/p34141_Untitled8.ped cannot input an indeterminate extent parameter if the sub-procedure foo /home/hc/p34141_Untitled8.ped parameter
is a fixed size extent. (11421) in Progress but not in P2J.

function foo returns int (input p as int extent 2).
end.
def var k as int extent.
foo(input k).

This issue originated in the issue #2133, see the notes 23-26, 28, 30, 32.

1. the /home/hc/p34141_Untitled8.ped is the actual program name, not some special string (i.e. if you save the test in a test1.p file, then this would be test1.p)
2. foo(input k) converts to a direct Java method call, right? As ControlFlowOps are not involved in this case, we need to validate the parameters - but unfortunately this can't be done by the BlockManager APIs. I think the only choice is to convert any function call (for which its definition includes an extent parameter) to a ControlFlowOps API call, and add this parameter validation case to ControlFlowOps$InternalEntryCaller.valid. The conversion change I think will be in the convert/user_functions.rules file.
3. double-check if this error is emitted too when internal procedures or external programs are used.

This issue is fixed by #2293. Once #2293 is closed, this can be closed with Nofix resolution.

Fixed by #2293.