Oracle® Call Interface

Programmer's Guide, Volumes 1 and 2

Release 8.1.5

February 1999

Part No. A67846-01

Oracle Call Interface Programmer's Guide, Volumes 1 and 2, Release 8.1.5

Part No. A67846-01

Release 8.1.5

Primary Author: Phil Locke

Contributing Author: Eric Belden

Contributors: Ruth Baylis, Allen Brumm, Sashi Chandrasekaran, Debashish Chatterjee, Ernest Chen, Luxi Chidambaran, Sreenivas Gollapudi, Brajesh Goyal, Radhakrishna Hari, Josef Hasenberger, Don Herkimer, Chin-Heng Hong, Nancy Ikeda, Amit Jasuja, Sanjay Kaluskar, Ravi Kasamsetty, Susan Kotsovolos, Vishu Krishnamurthy, Srinath Krishnaswamy, Ramkumar Krishnan, Sanjeev Kumar, Thomas Kurian, Paul Lane, Shoaib Lari, Chon Lei, Cindy Lim, Nancy Liu, Diana Lorentz, Shailendra Mishra, Valarie Moore, Tin Nguyen, Denise Oertel, Rosanne Park, Jacqui Pons, Den Raphaely, Anindo Roy, Tim Smith, Ekrem Soylemez, Ashwini Surpur, Alan Thiessen, Peter Vasterd, Joyo Wijaya, Sathyam Yanamandram, Allen Zhao

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