It really is a sample program provided by IBM to connect to DB2 so I am not sure why that should be buggy. I will try another one and then debug . Thanks Vinita -----Original Message----- From: Bras, Gerard [mailto:gbras@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, August 20, 2004 2:46 PM To: Sinha, Vinita; gcc-help@xxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION in a embedded sql c program compiled using gcc Vinita, You have at least one bug in your program, a wild guess on my part is that it's a bad pointer, probably uninitialized. You need to make friends with the debug utility, there are some very good ones now which will let you work at the source code level. If you have gcc available then you may very well also have gdb. In any case this is the kind of problem that needs to be looked at first hand (the source code) and I'm not sure this is the right group for that. I urge you to find an experienced programmer and beg/plead/bribe him/her to walk you through solving this kind of problem. It's one of those skills that will last you a lifetime. Best of luck, Gerard -----Original Message----- From: gcc-help-owner@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gcc-help-owner@xxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Sinha, Vinita Sent: Friday, August 20, 2004 5:13 PM To: gcc-help@xxxxxxxxxxx Subject: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION in a embedded sql c program compiled using gcc Hi, I have a embedded sql C program compiled and bound using gcc version 3.3.1 . It goes againat udb/db2 version 8.1 . I am getting the following error when trying to execute the program . Is there something I am missing or is it a known issue on which I can get some help . Exception: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION at eip=610D39A1 eax=00000000 ebx=00000000 ecx=FFFFFFFF edx=FFFFFFFF esi=00000000 edi=FFFFFFFF ebp=0022D708 esp=0022D704 program=C:\R20006\cPrograms\2006l.exe, pid 2088, thread main cs=001B ds=0023 es=0023 fs=0038 gs=0000 ss=0023 Stack trace: Frame Function Args 0022D708 610D39A1 (FFFFFFFF, 0022D7DE, 00401228, 00000001) 0022EE58 610D77FC (0022F208, 6111B310, 00401219, 0022EEA8) 0022EE78 610D6F05 (6111B310, 00401219, 0022EEA4, 0A051000) 0022EE98 610E4837 (00401219, FFFFFFFF, 00000000, 6111B374) 0022EF88 6108DF2F (69636131, 646D696E, 646D696E, 610F3EA0) 0022F058 004010EE (00000001, 0A050190, 0A0500A8, 00000001) 0022F0A8 61005F54 (0022F0C0, FFFFFFFF, 0A016A30, 0A016C44) 0022FF88 6100616B (00000000, 00000000, 00000000, 00000000) End of stack trace This is what I used to compile , bind the program and create the executable . @echo off if exist "%1.sqx" goto embedded if exist "%1.sqc" goto embedded goto non_embedded :embedded rem Precompile and bind the program. call embprep %1 %2 %3 %4 rem Compile the program. if exist "%1.cxx" goto cpp_emb goto link_embedded :cpp_emb rem Link the program. :link_embedded gcc -m32 -I"C:\Program Files\SQLLIB\include" -I"C:\Program Files\SQLLIB\samples\c" -g3 -Wall -c -fmessage-length=0 -osqlexample.o sqlexample.c gcc -m32 -L"C:\Program Files\SQLLIB\lib" -L"C:\Program Files\SQLLIB\include" -o"2006l.exe" sqlexample.o utilemb.o "C:\Program Files\SQLLIB\lib\db2api.lib" goto exit Thanks