Memory confusion ?

Hello,

I'm in trouble with a C code using OCI (Oracle Enterprise Edition 8.0.5) on a Intel PPro with 4Gb of memory using UnixWare 7.0.1 and 7.1. The sources are from previous people who had worked on nut unreachable. This code has worked
perfectly until I made some change inside. After one week of investigations, I finally be able to locate and reproduce exactly the problem.

After a while, the call to the function

AllocHandle(stmp,(dvoid**)&(bndp),OCI_HTYPE_BIND,0,(dvoid**)0)

returns OCI_ERROR.

Then, the program handle the error by calling

OCIErrorGet(errhd, (ub4) 1,

                   (text *) NULL, &errcode, errbuf,
                        (ub4) sizeof(errbuf), OCI_HTYPE_ERR);

And failed by returning OCI_NO_DATA whitout of course filling any fields from errcode and errbuf (??????)

The most surprising is the instant of when the errors begin. If I put a simple 'printf("blabla");' (with the length of "blabla" at least 3 characters)in the body of the function which manages the errors or funtoins after. The errors begin at the start of the program (!). BUT If I put the 'printf' before the function error(...), the start of errors doesn't change.

Now, I am checking the x86 assembly output to see if the problem is not here.

After I will try a candle in the nearest church and make a prayer. :-)

Laurent.

ps: HHHHHHHHHHHHHHEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLPPPPPPPPPPP !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!