FreeTDS Development Group

[Brian Bruns <camber AT ais.org>]

On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Brandon M. Reynolds wrote:

> Actually, Linux/x86.  I think gcc on just about every platform supports
> long long.  Plenty of other architectures/compilers support long long,
> even though the processors/operating systems are 32-bit.  It's just that
> 64-bit machines handle 64-bit values a lot better, but I digress.  I'm
> sure that not every platform supports long long and I confess I have no
> idea as to the ISO/ANSI status long long.

Didn't realize that gcc supported long long on 32bit platforms...good to
know.  But I suspect many other compilers don't support it. I know freetds
has been ported to some really ancient stuff. 

> > Here's a more generic fix for all numerics with values < scaling (which
> > is the broader problem here).
> 
> Yeah, I suspected that all numerics would have a similar problem. 
> Thanks
> for the fix.

Thank you for pointing out the problem...I'm actually using numerics and
have been blissfully unaware that < $.10 was broken :-)

Brian