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  • From: Ken Seymour <kenaseymour AT yahoo.com>
  • To: TDS Development Group <freetds AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: current CVS version won't connect to MSSQL 7
  • Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 16:06:40 -0800 (PST)




--- Brian Bruns <camber AT umcc.ais.org> wrote:
>
> As far as I can tell the TDS 7 login packet assumes
> that the client is
> little endian. However, if you look at the login
> packet there is a bunch
> of calls to tds_put_smallint() which writes the
> bytes in host order
> (assuming the byte order was already negotiated).
> In tds_put_smallint you
> could do something like:
>
> tds_put_smallint(TDSSOCKET *tds, TDS_SMALL_INT si)
> {

I think it would be much better to use ntohs and htons
than to have lots of ifdefs.


> #ifdef HW_BIG_ENDIAN
> if (IS_TDS70(tds)) {
> tds_put_byte(tds, si / 256);
> tds_put_byte(tds, si % 256);
> } else {
> tds_put_n(tds,(unsigned char
> *)&si,sizeof(TDS_SMALLINT));
> }
> #else
> tds_put_n(tds,(unsigned char
> *)&si,sizeof(TDS_SMALLINT));
> #endif
> }
>
> However, I'm guessing this is just the start of the
> troubles. A big
> endian 7.0 client must be able to send and recieve
> *everything* in little
> endian order...Perhaps I'm wrong and there is a
> switch to allow big end
> client, but seeing as how there are no big endian
> TDS7 clients it'd
> probably be bug ridden for lack of testing if it did
> exist.
>
> Brian
>
>
> On 18 Feb 2000, William P. McGonigle wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > I tried sqsh today and get the same
> connection_dead in
> > ct_process_default_tokens() to MSSQL 7 from
> Solaris 7, with TDS version 7.
> > (jackpot)
> >
> >
> > SWAG: Might the magic strings in tds7_send_login
> need to be ifdef'd for
> > endianness like they are in tds_send_login?
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > -Bill
> >
>
>
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