FreeTDS Development Group

["Dale P. Smith" <smithd AT bellhow.com>]

Gregg Jensen wrote:
> 
> I have whittled one particular problem on Solaris(sparc) down to the 
> convert_int4.  It seems to
> be choking (core dump) on :
> 
> *(TDS_INT*)src
> 
> I have the same test compiled on Linux (with the same version from CVS) and 
> it works just fine.
> If you have any ideas why Solaris (using gcc-2.7.2) might choke on this?  
> When I run through the
> debugger and stop before this line, and execute 'print *(TDS_INT*)src' it 
> works just fine (the
> correct value gets printed).  I used the old conversion code (from an older 
> version of dblib with
> the proper modifications), and the correct values get printed and no core 
> dumps.  Any ideas?

Sparcs need to be word aligned when accessing words.  What is the value
of src?  Is on a 4 byte
address?  What I mean is (src % 4) needs to be 0.

Dale