FreeTDS Development Group

["Scott C. Gray" <gray AT voicenet.com>]

On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Mark Schaal wrote:

> The magic numbers sent in the login packet in login.c tells the server
> what endianness to use for the actual data.  The code mostly works on
> both my intels and sparcs (microsparc & maybe a supersparc) here.  I
> believe there are open issues with MS SQLServer 7.0 date data.
> 
> > Also, as a side note... there are a lot of assumptions that
> > sizeof(short) == 2 and sizeof(long) == 4... that should really get
> > asserted somewhere if it is going to be assumed.
> 
> True, true.

I have been doing some major re-writing of the TDS layer, during
which I have replaced virtually every datatype with TDS_<datatype>,
like TDS_INT, TDS_CHAR, TDS_BYTE, etc.  This will allow us to address
the number-of-bytes issue simply by #if'defing the tds.h header file
for each platform.  This is the way that CS-lib does it.


-scott

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