Re: Informix-Net, SQLwindows and a bad malloc()?
Posted in 1996
Topics: General Discussion
ppr@deckard.hb.north.de (Patrick Preuss) wrote: > >Hi, > >we are trying to migrate our SQLwindows 5.0.1 apps to 5.0.2, and some very >nasty little bug bites us on every try. At some arbitrary function call, >mostly a Sql[FetchNext][Prepare|AndExecute] we get this big dialog box >stating that "some undetected error ocurred ..." (Win3.11) or a "API >recursively entered" (Win95). Sometimes the debugger hangs a few lines >before that specific line. If I restructure the code, the error appears >somewhere else. We are connected to Informix 6.x by I-Net 5.0.1 WF1. >Now, if you ask me I say it's some dynamic alloc failure in either the >Informix-Router or the gateway, but noone asks me :'-( We can't port the app >to another DB, and all tries to strip-some-code-and-see-what-happens >were unsuccessfull until now. > >Helpmehelpmehelpme pleeeeeease, >Patrick > >-- Hi Pattrick We had a the same problem when upgrading from 5.0.1 (PTF3) to 5.0.2. Now we are programming with 5.0.2 but we use the routers from 5.0.1. The routers are one DLL- and one EXE- file (which are not on this machine so I cannot tell you the name of them). In this way we got the benefits of 5.0.2 and a good connection to the database. Bye Markus