OCI applications crash Oracle 7.3.3.0.0 on NT

Just a heads up to all you OCI for C programmers.

I just spent a week going through this with Oracle support. Perhaps you can bypass the problem I encountered by reading this message.

I have an OCI application that I run on NT 4.0 with Service Pack 2. Compiled with Visual C++ version 4.2 with the 4.2b patch installed.

I was using the OCI 7.3.2 and SQL*Net 2.3.2 combination and all worked fine. I then upgraded to OCI 7.3.3.0.0 and SQL*Net 2.3.3.0.0. After this, any time I would attempt to run the application through the integrated symbolic debugger, as soon as the program called orlon() or olog(), it would throw a non-recoverable exception in NTDLL.DLL (0xc0000008). The last calling DLL to NTDLL.DLL was a new Oracle DLL named OTRACE73.DLL.

Oracle has a patch for this. If you run into this problem, save yourself some time, get on the phone with Oracle Support and request the patch for the Oracle Required Support Files version 7.3.3.0.3 for Windows NT. I was in a bind because for about a week, I was unable to debug any OCI applications because I could never get past the login. Only way around it was to downgrade to the previous version of Oracle products.

Hope this helps some of you. Received on Fri May 23 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT