Re: Anybody knows this bug ?

laplo@vir.com (Louis Lapointe) wrote: >We are actually testing Informix 4GL version 4.14 on our RISC 6000 >machine with AIX 4.1.1. Informix SE version is 5.01. >We are experiencing bad crashes with some of our programs. It happens >when we call another program that returns a value. >For example, > run l_var_run returning l_status >The called program will run normally but the calling program will >crash on the retunring statement. >If we call a program without specifying "returning l_status", all goes >well. >If youv've seen this and have a solution or workaround, I would >appreciate hearing about it. Yep, we've seen it. We recently attempted upgrading from 4.10 RDS to 4.14 RDS (running SCO 3.2v4.2 on a 486) and encountered the same problem. Informix support told us it was a known bug, and the "workaround" was to remove the RETURNING clauses from RUN statements (great, huh :). The bug number is 42571 or 42675. Several weeks ago we escalated our case to the US to attempt to get a fix for it, but we haven't heard anything since. Because we are not willing to rewrite hundreds of lines of code we are stuck with version 4.10. >Thank you for your time No problem. Cheers, Brent Jackson. brent@hypercom.co.nz Phone : 64-9-3603593 Fax : 64-9-3602840