From: vzell AT de DOT oracle DOT com (Dr. Volker Zell)
Subject: Problem with a header file
16 Sep 1998 15:33:48 -0700
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Hi experts

I have the following problem when compiling a test program for the
Oracle call interface. I finally managed to produce a .a file from
a .lib file. Thanks Mumit.

vzell:/src/oracle/oci> make oci02
gcc -o oci02 oci02.c -I. -I/usr/local/include/oci80 -lociw32 -loci
In file included from oci02.c:64:
\usr\local\include\oci80\oratypes.h:169: parse error before `ub8'
\usr\local\include\oci80\oratypes.h:169: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
\usr\local\include\oci80\oratypes.h:183: parse error before `sb8'
\usr\local\include\oci80\oratypes.h:183: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
make: *** [oci02] Error 1

The problem is in the oratypes.h include file:

When I change line 169 (and the same in 183) from

  typedef unsigned _int64 ub8;

to

  typedef unsigned int ub8;

the compiliation succeeds and the program works. I'm not a programmer
so my question is, why does this work? 
By the way, I have a makefile for the MSVC compiler and there this
program compiles with the original include file just fine.

Ciao
  Volker

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