FreeTDS Development Group

[Brian Bruns <camber AT ais.org>]

Hi Steve,

The issue with alpha is mostly a set of typedefs that need to have
autoconf determine which types to use for 8, 16, and 32 bit ints and 4 and
8 byte floats...It's on my list for the next release but if someone wants
to take it on, I wouldn't complain.  I'm basically just going to copy 
what glib/gtk does

Brian

On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Steve Langasek wrote:

> James,
> 
> > Well, not quite.  But you cannot log in until someone runs a TDS server
> > on a 64-bit machine with the protocol fields a bit bigger.  So it is an
> > interoperability issue.
> 
> ...so if it makes its way into the release no one will be too worried, but 
> if
> someone happened to file a bug report about the fact that FreeTDS on alpha
> can't talk to MS SQL on intel, it would probably be release-critical. :D
> 
> > I've an alpha running Debian to help you with if required.
> 
> I have access to a Linux-AXP system at work (running RedHat) and an NT 
> server
> running SQL 7.0, and I'll also be getting my hands on another Alpha soon
> that'll be converted to Debian, so I have a setup that I can start working
> with.  The question is, where do I start coding?  You mention larger 
> protocol
> fields; does that mean that the TDS protocol should actually look different
> with 64-bit v. 32-bit machines, or just that freetds needs some help so 
> that a
> 64-bit client acts just like a 32-bit client?  I have almost no knowledge of
> the TDS protocol; does anyone know where I could find some good 
> documentation
> to let me know what I should expect to see on the line, or are the
> implementations the only real documentation? :)
> 
> Regards,
> Steve Langasek
> postmodern programmer
>