Re: OCI + AIX 4.2 -- runtime problem.

Patrick,

        Oracle has a program to help you find symbols... Try the symfind utility (it's in $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/bin - I think).

Patrick Keshishian wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I have been trying to write some code that will be able to insert/
> fetch LONG RAW datatype into/from Oracle 7.3.2 running on AIX 4.2.
> My main problem is documentation. I have almost none!
>
> After a few days of looking around on our development machiens
> I was finally able to find the library to link with (or so I
> believe I have found it), libclntsh.a.
>
> One problem though: whenever I run my executable it core-dumps with
> signal 11 seg. fault (see pasted text below). The core file makes
> reference to 'reset_pthread_kill()' function. I must note that
> my simple-little-test applications doesn't use threads (I can include
> the source file if you want but I figured you'd not want to look
> at a source from someone else). To be sure that it isn't my lack of
> programming skills (*smirk*) that is causing this core-dump I took
> one of the demo files that was in the $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/demo direcotry,
> "oci01.c" to be exact, and compiled it the same way as I did my own
> sample program. At run time this demo program also core-dumps with
> a similar stack trace from the debugger.
>
> I was wondering if you could suggest something that I was doing
> wrong or not doing that is causing this behavior.
>
> I read on in the OCI documentation and learned of an OCI call
> 'opinit(mode)' which is an optional call to be made before any
> other OCI call to let Oracle know wheather or not the program is
> threaded or not (the default behavior being non-threaded).
>
> The problem is that I can't find a supplied library (lib*.a file)
> that contains this OCI call. Any ideas?
>
> I have no support from our DBA. He refuses to call Oracle and
> ask for help (in documentation form or otherwise) since our group
> is using the GNU C/C++ compiler (gcc) instead of the IBM CSet++.
> Though this is not a compiler *issue*). Or am I wrong? :->
>
> Anyway...I'd appreciate any input regarding the core-dump problem.
> Am I not linking the with proper libs?
>
> Thanks for listening to my rantings :-)
>
> Patrick ...
> patrick_at_boxsoft.com
>
Received on Wed Dec 10 1997 - 00:00:00 CST