Note: Original question here:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6...b-for-occi-oci

Answers via SO appreciated although I am happy to reply here as well.

When debugging an application under Windows (with Visual Studio or
WinDBG) that makes use of OC[C]I it would often be convenient if there
be symbol files (PDB files) for the Oracle OCI/OCCI libraries. (public
symbol files, just as Microsoft makes available for all system libraries)

Does Oracle provide these?

Note: These public symbol files would be especially welcome for the
Oracle libraries because we did have a few crashes where the call stack
was inside on of the oci/occi libraries and it does appear that the
(probably optimization) settings used to produce these DLLs effectively
prevent Visual Studio from displaying any usable call stack for a user
dump when inside these libs.

As a further clarification to the previous paragraph: This doesn't imply
a crash in the OCCI libs. It just means if one thread happens to be
inside an OCCI call and a user dump is generated (for whatever reason -
could be generated on demand for any running application), the call
stack for this thread is (at least semi-) messed up. Therefore public
symbol files would come in extremely handy.

cheers,
Martin

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