Library /sys$common/syshlp/basichelp.hlb Compile time errors, DEFSIZNOT  *Conan The Librarian (sorry for the slow response - running on an old VAX)

  ERROR - A packed decimal variable used in a DEF was specified in  both
  a  DECLARE  FUNCTION statement and in the DEF statement.  The sizes of
  the two declarations are different.  Make the size declarations match.