FreeTDS Development Group

[Kevin <root AT zazu.nol.org>]

Tom May wrote:
> Assuming that a short is two chars is not a portable way to do things.
> If I were sure of exactly what you're trying to do, I would suggest a
> better way, but I'm not, so I won't.

        Basically, all I'm trying to do is get around the endian problem
with the MSSQL server...it sends short values as 2 bytes, switching hi
and low bytes depending on your systems endianess. The tds_get_smallint
function was backfiring on me on Solaris, as the function was assuming
little-endian form, while the server was sending the value as
big-endian.
The code there was done to eliminate the use of pound defines, as per
instructions from my boss. :)
        I've only been getting paid to program for a bit over a year now,
so I'm not as up to par on portability as I'd like...what would you 
suggest? Feel free to ignore this and flame me if this is an
inapproriate
question for this list :)

-- Kevin
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