FreeTDS Development Group

["Lowden, James K" <LowdenJK AT bernstein.com>]

> From: Thompson, Bill D (London) [mailto:ThompBil AT exchange.uk.ml.com]
> Sent: August 8, 2002 2:18 AM
> 
> On little endian the two bytes would be:
> 
> 0 0 0 0    1 0 0 0
> 
> which, if you were to cast the data to an 8 byte integer 
> would NOT make
> sense (well it would , but the number would be wrong). The 
> number 1 , on a
> little endian machine in an 8 byte integer would presumably be:
> 
> 1 0 0 0    0 0 0 0
> 
> HTH, How did you get on ?

Bill, 

As my father used to say, we're cooking with gas.  

I basically stole the pre-August 2 code and adpated it to tds_convert_money.
Once I understood the problem and realized we had had working code at one
time, it was just a matter of fitting the old logic into your new signature.
I spent more time researching the problem than fixing it.  

The clue was that both you and Brian said TDS_MONEY is two 32-bit integers
(not one 64-bit one).  

I left your code in place (#ifdef'ed out) in case you want to endianize your
version instead, or in case mine is good for one situation and yours for
another.  Let me know if you want to fix it; otherwise and some point I'll
remove it.  

What do you see as still TODO for 0.60?

Regards, 

--jkl


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