FreeTDS Development Group

[ZIGLIO Frediano <Frediano.Ziglio AT vodafoneomnitel.it>]

> 
> Yes, but the different API's handle things differently. 
> Sybase dblib and
> ctlib for instance return an error if the destination variable is too
> small to handle the returned data (and do not affect the host 
> variable in
> any way), whereas odbc truncates the data as in your suggestion. I've
> tried to accurately reproduce the behaviours of the various 
> API's , and I
> reckoned that unless tds_convert knew which API was calling 
> it, it could
> not make the correct decisions...
> 
ctlib/dblib specification document that buffer is unchanged if text exceed
destlen ?
I not I don't see the problem.

freddy77

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