FreeTDS Development Group

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

Hmm..there are two float types: real and flt8 which are 4 byte and 8 byte
respectively.  The should be a straight mapping to the float and double
types in C (real -> float, flt8 -> double).  Can you provide some test
code to look at?

On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, Michael Suedkamp wrote:

> Hi (Brian),
> 
> now I am at obtaining float types from my MS SQL7 server using TDS. As with 
> recently the datetime values, I looked at convert.c for the conversion to a 
> string representation (as I did with the datetimes recently).
> 
> However, I seem to be unable to get values >=1. So e.g. "0.45633" works but 
> "1.5465" not. In the latter case e.g. "00.000" is returned (depending on my 
> format).
> 
> What am I doing wrong?
> 
> Michael
>