The SCLM parsers gather statistics on various language constructs. This section describes the constructs that the SCLM parsers cannot identify. Because a user-defined parser can be used to replace an SCLM parser, the restrictions of the SCLM-supplied parsers can be overcome, if necessary.

Unsupported constructs do not necessarily prevent members from being used in SCLM. Invalid constructs, however, prevent statistics from being gathered accurately and can result in SCLM finding too many or too few include references. Extra or missing includes can result in dependency processing errors being detected by the build and promote processors.

SCLM does not support two general types of language constructs: non-explicit references and separation of references. Both of these constructs involves include and compool references.