Re: Coredumps and 4GL -- followup

Carlson@WHSmith wrote: > > 4GL: 7.20.UD2 > Engine: 7.23.UC11 > OS: HPUX 10.20 > > I've just about had it -- hopefully someone out there can pull me back > from the brink. 8-) > > I have a 4gl program that has been running since the 4.1 days. It > declares a cursor for an outer loop, then it processes each row. It > survived the conversion to 6.0x; now we're running 7.20.UD2. For some > reason now it core dumps on me. > > When I add a few displays (yeah, we're IFMX-debugger-deprived), I'm able > to see where it is in the program when it dumps. When I add a few other > displays, the location changes. > > When I clean up the code ( close cursor / free cursor ), it runs a bit > longer and then still coredumps. > > I remember the 'old' (4.1) days where a display or a sleep would "take > care" of the problem, but this is ridiculous. Anyone out there have any > ideas? > Followup: compiled c4gl with -otherargs -g in order to check with xdb; code ran with no problems. Eliminated all display statements, still ran. Eliminated close / free cursor statements; program coredumped. Made corrections to original program and added close / free cursor; program ran. I opened a call with Informix anyway, just to check. Such are the ways of 4gl, I guess. John Carlson Informix DBA WHSmith, Inc.