Re: reserved identifiers in Pro*C

In article <1993Aug3.104718.85503_at_ucl.ac.uk>, Alan Deacon writes:

> Having just wasted several days trying to get a simple Pro*C program to
> run without barfing - and finding the problem was due to a name clash between
> our identifiers and Oracles - does anyone have a definitive list of names
> to avoid?

I presume the list of global symbols in the ORACLE libraries and object files is version dependent (and perhaps even o/s dependent as well), so I guess the only safe thing is to use whatever utilities are provided by your operating system to extract all the names from the libraries and object files you have on your own machine (and to recreate that list whenever you upgrade the ORACLE software).

Under VMS (which we use), LIBRARY/LIST/NAMES would do the job for an object library and ANALYZE/OBJECT/GSD would do it for an object file. You'd then have to do some simple post-processing to extract just the names from the report produced by each command.

Why Oracle Corp. couldn't adopt some simple naming convention to make it easy for users to avoid name clashes in their own software is beyond me. Sigh...

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