Re: Radiohead lyrics in Oracle RDBMS code

From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter_at_googlemail.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:46:22 +0100
Message-ID: <7s9d6iFrb8U2_at_mid.individual.net>

On 26.01.2010 20:39, Mark D Powell wrote:

> On Jan 25, 6:05 am, gazzag<gar..._at_jamms.org>  wrote:

>> On 25 Jan, 08:16, Dennis Yurichev<dennis.yuric..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> Hi.
>>
>>> strings oracle.exe | grep radiohead
>>
>>> Starting at least at 10.2.0.1, function kfasSelfTest_update() (located
>>> in kfas.o) use Radiohead lyrics to test... something related to ASM
>>> probably.
>>
>>> Schematic pseudocode:
>>
>>> #define STRING "I'm a creep, I'm a winner, what the hell am I doing
>>> here.I don't belong here - radiohead"
>>
>>> kfasSelfTest_update()
>>> {
>>> kfasOpen (...);
>>> somestruct.somevalue=STRING;
>>> kfasUpdate (somestruct);
>>> kfasClose (...);
>>> newstruct=kfasOpen (...);
>>> if (strncmp (newstruct.somevalue, STRING, ...)!=0)
>>> {
>>> // raise error 99999?
>>> kserec1(99999, 1, ...);
>>> kserec2(99999, 1, ..., STRING, 1, ...);
>>> return 0;
>>> };
>>> kfasClose (...);
>>> return 1;
>>
>>> };-
>>
>> Sadly, if this is true, the lyric is wrong. The actual words are:
>>
>> "I'm a creep, I'm a _weirdo_. What the hell am I doing here. I don't
>> belong here."
>>
>> Maybe I'll log a SR.... :P
>>
>> HTH

>
> The presence of the message seems to be both version platform
> dependent.  I cannot find in on AIX 10.2.0.3 but it can be found on
> Linux and Solaris.

I think we should tell Richard - he's a fan of Radiohead (maybe he can even provide the German translation for the patch).

http://richardfoote.wordpress.com/2009/06/13/radiohead-in-rainbows-disk-2-available-for-digital-download/

;-)

        robert

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