Re: Pro*C/Cobol pgm file sizes under 6.0.34

In article <1993Jan28.053821.3749_at_cnw01.storesys.coles.oz.au>, andrew_at_cnw01.storesys.coles.oz.au (Andrew May) writes:
> After we upgraded to Oracle 6.0.34 from 6.0.31 on our NCR system 3000 Unix
> port, we noticed that the file size of the executables of Pro*C/Cobol had
> increased dramatically. e.g. The Table Structure Analyser program (Pro*C)
> was linked under both releases viz:
>
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 oracle dba 259180 Aug 11 08:45 tsa (under 6.0.31)
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 andrew dba 534012 Nov 26 11:54 tsa (under 6.0.34)
>
>
> I logged a TAR with Oracle in October last, but local support said it was
> because there is more functionality in 6.0.34. I did not accept that of
> course.
>
> I asked one of the Oracle product Directors in December and he thought it
> might be because of a change to a default in linking. He never got back to
> us
> on that.
>
> I would have thought this was a simple question, but my TAR has been logged
> with
> Oracle for 3 months now. Can anybody shed some light on this "feature" of
> 6.0.34?
>
> Thanks,
> Andrew.
>
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I am not sure if that version of Oracle is implementing shared libraries (Dynamically Linked Libraries) or not but this is what I have found.

With Oracle 7 on most UNIX SVR4 the size of the program was enormous. It was found that the Oracle developers wrote the port and there were some faults with
the implemantation of shared libraries. They then had to revert back to statically linked libraries to resolved it.

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