Re: [Q] Compatibility of Oracle Pro*C and C++

<>>>> On 1 Oct 93 19:34:51 GMT, pytlik_at_eris.cs.umb.edu (Marek Pytlik) said:

< In article <MLOENNRO.93Oct1010026_at_wrpyr4.us.oracle.com> mloennro_at_us.oracle.com (Magnus Lonnroth) writes:

<>At the moment, there is no way of including embedded SQL in C++ modules.

< How about this:

< cBroadcast::open( int id)
< {
< // our macro
< EXEC SQL DECLARE CB1 CURSOR FOR
< ...
< WHERE ID=...
< ;
< EXEC SQL OPEN CB1;
< return 0;
< fail:
< return 1;
< }

< Similary you can do cBroadcast::fetch, and others.

<>To use Pro*C v1 (and v2 soon to be released) you must write extern C

< All you have to do (oracle unsupported), is to have something like:

< extern "C" {
< extern void sqlbcc( int*, int* );
< ...
< }

Can you elaborate on what you're doing here? It seems fairly Oracle specific and, therefore, likely to fail at the next Oracle patch or version change. What is sqlbcc()?

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