Online 7.3 and 4gl core dump
Seems to me that an INPUT command in 4gl on solaris is core dumping for no reason. i.e. DATABASE ipa@tater DEFINE state like bil.state MAIN OPEN FORM form1 FROM "form1" DISPLAY FORM form1 INPUT BY NAME state END MAIN The above began core dumping after an upgrade to 7.3 (solaris). The state field IS in the form file and also the bil table in the ipa database. Anybody gotta clue on this? Thanks!
steve farris wrote: > > Seems to me that an INPUT command in 4gl on solaris is core dumping for > no > reason. i.e. > > DATABASE ipa@tater > DEFINE state like bil.state > MAIN > OPEN FORM form1 FROM "form1" > DISPLAY FORM form1 > INPUT BY NAME state > END MAIN > > The above began core dumping after an upgrade to 7.3 (solaris). The > state > field IS in the form file and also the bil table in the ipa database. > Anybody gotta > clue on this? Thanks! ON the face of it, there is something wrong, and fairly seriously wrong. However, we would need to get a lot of information from you to debug this. Let's see. We need to know which version of I4GL you are using, which version of IDS you are using, whether they are in the same INFORMIXDIR, and which order you installed them in. If you changed I4GL, did you recompile? -- Jonathan Leffler (jleffler@informix.com, jleffler@earthlink.net) Guardian of DBD::Informix v0.60 -- see http://www.perl.com/CPAN #include <disclaimer.h>
steve farris wrote: > Seems to me that an INPUT command in 4gl on solaris is core dumping for > no reason. i.e. > > DATABASE ipa@tater > DEFINE state like bil.state > MAIN > OPEN FORM form1 FROM "form1" > DISPLAY FORM form1 > INPUT BY NAME state > END MAIN > > The above began core dumping after an upgrade to 7.3 (solaris). The > state field IS in the form file and also the bil table in the ipa database. Did you recompile your 4GL executable AND your 4GL form after the update? What version of 4GL are you using? One problem I encountered after upgrading the DB server to IDS 7.30 was automatic conversion of all CHAR fields to NCHAR. That caused all old applications that were not NCHAR aware to bomb. If you want to use an old application against a new server running 7.30, you must go through the Relay Module. Hope this helps, Richard -- +--------------------------+------------------------------------------+ | Dr. Richard Spitz | INTERNET: spitz@ana.med.uni-muenchen.de | | EDV-Gruppe Anaesthesie | Tel : +49-89-7095-6110 | | Klinikum Grosshadern | FAX : +49-89-7095-6420 <-- NEW!!! | | 81366 Munich, Germany | GSM : +49-172-8933578 | +--------------------------+------------------------------------------+
steve farris <stevef@statenet.com> writes: > Seems to me that an INPUT command in 4gl on solaris is core dumping for > no > reason. i.e. > > DATABASE ipa@tater > DEFINE state like bil.state > MAIN > OPEN FORM form1 FROM "form1" > DISPLAY FORM form1 > INPUT BY NAME state > END MAIN > > The above began core dumping after an upgrade to 7.3 (solaris). The > state > field IS in the form file and also the bil table in the ipa database. > Anybody gotta > clue on this? Thanks! Are you compiling with gcc? Informix will write into string constants and so you have to use the -fwritable-strings option, if so. -- Forte International, P.O. Box 1412, Ridgecrest, CA 93556-1412 Ronald Cole <ronald@forte-intl.com> Phone: (760) 499-9142 President, CEO Fax: (760) 499-9152 My PGP fingerprint: 15 6E C7 91 5F AF 17 C4 24 93 CB 6B EB 38 B5 E5
The problem was the -fwritable-strings option in the gcc compiler. thanks for all the help!! ronald@forte-intl.com wrote: > > steve farris <stevef@statenet.com> writes: > > Seems to me that an INPUT command in 4gl on solaris is core dumping for > > no > > reason. i.e. > > > > DATABASE ipa@tater > > DEFINE state like bil.state > > MAIN > > OPEN FORM form1 FROM "form1" > > DISPLAY FORM form1 > > INPUT BY NAME state > > END MAIN > > > > The above began core dumping after an upgrade to 7.3 (solaris). The > > state > > field IS in the form file and also the bil table in the ipa database. > > Anybody gotta > > clue on this? Thanks! > > Are you compiling with gcc? Informix will write into string constants > and so you have to use the -fwritable-strings option, if so. > > -- > Forte International, P.O. Box 1412, Ridgecrest, CA 93556-1412 > Ronald Cole <ronald@forte-intl.com> Phone: (760) 499-9142 > President, CEO Fax: (760) 499-9152 > My PGP fingerprint: 15 6E C7 91 5F AF 17 C4 24 93 CB 6B EB 38 B5 E5