Re: Radiohead lyrics in Oracle RDBMS code

  • From: Thomas Roach <troach@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: dennis@xxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 10:44:09 -0500

I wonder what other lyrics are in the code :)... Could this explain why
Oracle keeps taking more room to install? : )

On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 3:16 AM, Dennis Yurichev <dennis@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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> Hi.
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> strings oracle.exe | grep radiohead
>
> Starting at least at 10.2.0.1, function kfasSelfTest_update() (located
> in kfas.o) use Radiohead lyrics to test... something related to ASM
> probably.
>
> Schematic pseudocode:
>
> #define STRING "I'm a creep, I'm a winner, what the hell am I doing
> here.I don't belong here - radiohead"
>
> kfasSelfTest_update()
> {
>        kfasOpen (...);
>        somestruct.somevalue=STRING;
>        kfasUpdate (somestruct);
>        kfasClose (...);
>        newstruct=kfasOpen (...);
>        if (strncmp (newstruct.somevalue, STRING, ...)!=0)
>        {
>                // raise error 99999?
>                kserec1(99999, 1, ...);
>                kserec2(99999, 1, ..., STRING, 1, ...);
>                return 0;
>        };
>        kfasClose (...);
>        return 1;
> };
>
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