FreeTDS Development Group

[Brian Bruns <camber AT umcc.ais.org>]

Hmmm,

The best way to fix this would be to change tds_process_result() (in the
tds/token.c file) to correctly set colinfo->column_offset and friends to a
word aligned value. Boy, this really slipped my mind for some reason.

Brian

On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, Dale P. Smith wrote:

> 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
>