AIX endian problems
Mark Schaal
mark at champ.tstonramp.com
Mon Jul 10 16:27:51 EDT 2000
>
> I've compiled the tds library on AIX 4.3.2. This is big endian hardware.
>
> Autoconf defines both HW_BIG_ENDIAN and WORDS_BIGENDIAN.
>
> While the tds unittests all report success, the "sample" tdstest.c
> program fails. The dumps all include the following message:
>
> The token datastream length was not correct. This is an internal
> protocol error.
[...]
> Thanks,
>
> Tom
If you pass the unittests you should be okay. There are some
endian issues with TDS7.0 on big endian hardware for certain
data types, but I believe that should be the only problem case.
Oddly, I couldn't find your error message anywhere in the freeTDS
files.
Hope that helps,
Mark
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