FreeTDS Development Group

[Gregg Jensen <greggj AT savvis.net>]

Brian Bruns wrote:

> Gregg,
>
> Would you do me a favor? under tds_process_result_tokens() place a call to
> get_incoming() (just uncomment the code there).  Do it for Solaris and
> Linux and diff the client.out files that get written.  I'd like to know if
> there is a difference in the output streams the server is sending.
>
> My feeling is that there shouldn't be a difference other than integers
> returning in opposite byte order, but this should give us something to go
> on.
>

Boy, I dug deep for this one.  get_incoming doesn't seem to exist in the
latest code, but I found it in debug.c in some very old code (yea, I keep
a lot of copies hanging around).  Anyway,  it appears that the only
difference is found in the number swap.  Most of the entries are just
two position swaps.  But, there are a few that are 4 position swaps, that
I will look at closer to see if they may cause problems.  For example:

Linux                              Solaris
13:1                                   13:0
14:0                                   14:0
15:0                                   15:0
16:0                                   16:1

Depending on where it is in the parsing of the resultant message,  it has
the potential for conflict.  Or, at least it is something for me to 
investigate.

Gregg